Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Become a UROP Research Mentor (October 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 83879-21619567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

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Other Tue, 11 May 2021 12:45:19 -0400 2021-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Submit a Research Project
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Application Open (October 23, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87903 87903-21647499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Gain exposure to non-profits, research and Detroit in Summer 2022.

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

https://myumi.ch/erK95

Priority Deadline: December 3rd (5pm)
Final Application Deadline: January 31st 2022 (5pm)

Info Session offered Wednesdays at Noon weekly
From October 27 - December 8, January 5 - January 12
Register for an info session at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:17:43 -0500 2021-10-23T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
WE21 Alumni Brunch (October 23, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85622 85622-21627799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

Attend WE21's alumni brunch to connect with UMich alumni and current members of our undergrad SWE chapter! It will be hosted on Saturday, October 23rd from 10 am - noon at Le Meridien Indianapolis, 123 S Illinois St, Indianapolis, IN. Contact: Akshaya Jagadeesh at swe.gradliaison@umich.edu

No RSVP is required.
Contact: Akshaya Jagadeesh at swe.gradliaison@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:09:55 -0400 2021-10-23T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graduate Society of Women Engineers Conference / Symposium
Saturday Morning Physics | The Physics of Music (October 23, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85678 85678-21628192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Music is a universal language that has the power to influence our moods and inspire. All music is ultimately due to the physics of different kinds of vibrating objects. Professor Aidala will discuss how natural modes of vibration lead to musical tones and timbres.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:58:11 -0400 2021-10-23T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-23T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Saturday Morning Physics Livestream / Virtual Professor Aidala demonstrating sound waves.
Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data (October 23, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84616 84616-21625758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is proud to present the first survey of renowned transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins, who creates platforms for dialogue about artificial intelligence as it intersects race, gender, aging, and our future histories.
Through her work, Dinkins has become a central figure nationally and internationally recognized for exposing bias and inequity within artificial intelligence systems. Weaving together art production and exhibition, community-based workshops and public speaking all with the intention of encouraging action towards making artificial intelligence systems more inclusive, accessible and transparent.
In this exhibition, Dinkins will debut new and interactive installations and workshops that build on her concept of Afro-now-ism. In this poetic manifesto-like text, Dinkins asks her audience, particularly from communities of color, to not only confront the litany of violences that humans have wielded upon one another based on the institutional and social constructions of race, caste, class, and gender to maintain status quo and the current systems of power - but rise above it by taking action to start building the world that they desire.
She writes: “Instead of waiting to reach the proverbial promised land, also known as a time in the future that may or may not manifest in your lifetime, Afro-now-ism is taking the leap and the risks to imagine and define oneself beyond systemic oppression... For black people in particular, it means conceiving yourself in the space of free and expansive thought and acting from a critically integrated space, allowing for more community-sustaining work.”
Through her installations and workshops Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data develops a dialogue with the audience on the hierarchies embedded within machine learning and AI architecture and one's individual agency in transforming the algorithms within it. The audience will explore and participate in creating a more inclusive data-based narrative of what governance of the people, by the people and for the people can look like in an AI mediated world where care is encoded within our digital civic system.

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:15:20 -0400 2021-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Computer-generated image shows a flower garden full of glowing spheres
Cancelled - Alejandro Escovedo (October 23, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84348 84348-21623424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

A Note from Alejandro



Dear Friends,

It pains me to write this letter. On March 12, 2020, my band and I received word that our tour was to be postponed until further notice due to the Covid pandemic, I remember that day vividly. We had been rehearsing and preparing to tour behind the release of La Cruzada, the Spanish version of The Crossing, Don Antonio was to play guitar on that tour, but was detained because of the outbreak of Covid in Italy. Upon being informed that the tour was postponed, we decided to phone a friend in Milan to hear what effect the virus was having on their lives; what he told us was frightening and truly drove home the severity and danger of contracting the virus.

We said goodbye without shaking hands or abrazos, we were in shock from the news from Italy. That was roughly 17 months ago. I have not played a show since February 2020. When news of a vaccine was announced, I like many of us began to feel a sense that we might get back to a safe and healthy world in which we might gather and celebrate music once again. I wanted nothing more than to return to doing what I’ve been doing for the last 45 years, which is singing songs, playing with good friends and rocking to the beat of the drums.

With the delta variant rearing its ugly head, I’ve come to a very difficult decision and that is that I am not touring this year, and will focus on writing my memoir, writing new songs and working on a screenplay based on The Crossing. I feel I have a responsibility to not put you, the audience, in danger. If even one of you became ill as a result of attending my shows, it would bear heavy on my soul. I’ve always felt rock n roll was a contact sport played in sweaty little clubs with loud guitars, and the abandon that comes from the freedom and buzz of energy blasting from the stage until the wee hours of the morning. Until we can share those moments again without fear I’ll be listening to the birds sing with Nancy and the dogs. Please be safe and love one another.

Crossing borders, jumping barriers, taking risks, betting it all: that’s the path Alejandro Escovedo has been taking in his lifelong search for the heart of rock and roll.

The epic 17 song suite comprising The Crossing is about that journey: searching, but not necessarily finding, eyes and ears open all the way. Ranging from sweeping orchestral numbers to classic rock to bursts of 70s punk, the collection finds Escovedo delving further into his lifelong musical journey across his most sonically diverse work yet.

“This says more about me than any of my records without it being a record about me,” Alejandro Escovedo , “The Crossing”

The Crossing tells the tale of two boys, one from Mexico, one from Italy, who meet in Texas to chase their American rock and roll dreams. They discover a not-so-welcoming, very different place from the Promised Land they imagined, with cameos from the likes of Wayne Kramer of the MC5 and James Williamson of the Stooges to show the boys the way.

A Mexican-American kid with Texas roots and California raising taking on immigration issues in two continents with an Italian band, no less, makes perfect sense — if you know Alejandro Escovedo. Forever the curious explorer, he’s been a punk of the rebel kind in The Nuns, a cowpunk of the non-Western variety in Rank and File, commander of a guitar army in The True Believers, an orchestral conductor in his solo work, and a sensitive boy who has outrun death, demons, lust, and lost love in his songs. He has collaborated with Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Los Lobos, Peter Buck & Scott McCaughey, Tony Visconti, and Chuck Prophet. No Depression magazine declared him the Artist of the Decade.

Two years ago, with a string of European tour dates booked, he went looking for a band from the Continent to back him up. Don Antonio, a seasoned, all-instrumental band from Modigliana , in the northern Italian province of Emilia-Romagna, came highly recommended, but Alejandro wasn’t so sure at first. “They didn’t look like a rock and roll band,” he says. Then he started asking around. Their reputation sealed the deal. “Turns out they’d played with all my friends – Dan Stuart, Howe Gelb, Steve Wynn. Everybody knew them. Apparently, at one time or another, everybody toured with them as a band, made friends with them, or played the festival they put on every year.”

He sent the band a list of thirty songs before meeting up in Modigliana . “We had dinner,” Alejandro says. “We rehearsed a day and a half, then did 35 gigs in 40 days in ten different countries across Europe.

“I fell in love with them.”

Two months later, he was back for more tour dates including the south of Italy.

“That’s when it hit me how similar Mexican culture and Italian culture can be, especially in the south where the food is very spicy, the language is very different, and the desert meets the ocean.”

He learned about a deeper history. His new bandmates teased him for thinking 200 years was a long time.

The stories Alejandro Escovedo has been telling about the great migration across North America over the past 150 years mirrors stories that have been playing out for centuries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. “It’s ancient,” he says. “It’s been going on for centuries. It’s encoded in the DNA of all of us.”

The stories and the melding of music led the band and the artist to extend the collaboration into the studio. “I started developing this idea where a young boy from southern Italy named Salvo and a young boy from Mexico named Diego would meet in South Texas,” Alejandro says. “They were looking for the America they had heard about, seen in films, heard on records,” he says. “They go looking for the MC5, the Stooges, the Dolls, the Ramones, all the American bands that they love. They go looking for the authors, Kerouac and Ginsberg.” Without saying it, they come across a very conservative America. “They find they are in a different America, one that wasn’t as open and free as they had believed it was going to be.” But the story is not just that of Diego and Salvo, it also mirrors that of Alejandro and the co-writer of his songs Antonio Gramentieri.

Antonio, Don Antonio’s guitarist and leader, “speaks very good English, he’s well read, an ex-music journalist” Alejandro says. “He was easy to communicate with.” The album was recorded in a month at a farmhouse in Villafranca, Italy with Brian Deck co-producing (Modest Mouse, Gomez, Iron & Wine). “Playing with these guys, it came out naturally, it was coming out without any thought at all. The things with Italians and their music is, they’re always reaching for melody. It’s always very romantic, even when it’s tragic.” The band also features Denis Valentini on bass, Matteo Monti on drums, Franz Valtieri and Gianni Perinelli on horns plus Nicola Peruch on keyboards.

“My thoughts seem to fit very well with their kind of playing, the instrumentation we had, and the way they approach it,” Alejandro says. “They’re not a rock band. They aren’t a band that grew up playing New York Dolls covers. They grew up playing their own cinematic music. When we get into this orchestral thing, they totally embrace it.”

Keeping the Escovedo edge sharp on The Crossing are his personal heroes Williamson and Kramer. Additional guests include Peter Perrett and John Perry from UK cult band The Only Ones, recording together for the first time since 1980. Joe Ely features on both his own track, “Silver City,” as well as the title track. Rio Navidad – a spoken word track about a Texan ranger – was written by novelist and bandleader Willy Vlautin, and read by his bandmate Freddy Trujillo from Richmond Fontaine and The Delines.

“I wanted them in there because Salvo and Diego were looking for that attitude, that kind of perspective in rock and roll,” Alejandro says. “There’s a line in ‘Sonica USA:’ “I saw the Zeroes and they looked like me/This is the America I want to be/Anarchy in Hollywood/land of the free.’

“When we were playing as the True Believers early on [in the 1980s] we’d play San Marcos, San Antonio [Texas] and get all these Chicano kids in denim vests and Iron Maiden patches. I remember thinking they were into us, not necessarily for the music, but for the fact we were there on stage. They loved that we were doing what we were doing. I wanted to bring the Zeros into it because to me the Zeros were so different than any other band that was happening at the time.

“Salvo and Diego see the Plugz at Larchmont Hall, Cypress Hill – they love everything that has something they can relate to,” says Escovedo. “Seeing Love, the band, was like that to me. They were Chicano, black, white – there weren’t a lot of bands like that. Sam the Sham, Thee Midnighters, the Sir Douglas Quintet. All of that is what I experienced as a kid.

“The Crossing has parts of everything I’ve done and everything I want to do,” Alejandro says. “Lyrically, I say a lot of things I’ve never said, that I held back on. ‘Teenage Luggage’ is about the racism in music and things I’ve encountered along the way, the kinds of things I grew up with as a kid in Orange County, trying to be a surfer. Surfers hated Mexicans.”

Alejandro has lived The Crossing. Now he invites you to join Salvo and Diego as they blaze their trail across America. It’s a journey like none you’ve experienced before

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Performance Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:02:29 -0400 2021-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Alejandro Escovedo at The Ark
Dick Siegel with bassist Dave Roof “When the Sumac is on Fire!” (October 23, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86196 86196-21632079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information and policies before purchasing a ticket and again before attending a show. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave.*

One of America’s great songwriters, Michigan legend, Dick Siegel teams up with upright bassist Dave Roof to bring his irresistible and exuberant music to life. Strains of American folk, blues, jazz and R&B weave through Dick’s songs in classics like “Angelo’s” and “What Would Brando Do?” Sometimes there’s a hint of Hank Williams … a bit of Louis Jordan, Bob Dylan … the zaniness of Spike Jones... even a little T.S. Elliot meets the Beatles. It’s all Dick Siegel music - served up hot and fresh.

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Performance Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:46:23 -0400 2021-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Dick Siegel at The Ark
Become a UROP Research Mentor (October 24, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 83879-21619568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 24, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

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Other Tue, 11 May 2021 12:45:19 -0400 2021-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-24T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Submit a Research Project
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 24, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 24, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Application Open (October 24, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87903 87903-21647500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 24, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Gain exposure to non-profits, research and Detroit in Summer 2022.

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

https://myumi.ch/erK95

Priority Deadline: December 3rd (5pm)
Final Application Deadline: January 31st 2022 (5pm)

Info Session offered Wednesdays at Noon weekly
From October 27 - December 8, January 5 - January 12
Register for an info session at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:17:43 -0500 2021-10-24T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-24T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Day Hike Pinckney Rec Area (October 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88261 88261-21652009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Come hiking in nearby Pinckey Recreation Area, known for its extensive trail system and chain of lakes. We’ll enjoy some fall colors, hike past lakes and the Huron River, enjoy a lunch on the trail, and recharge in nature.

Transportation, meals, trip leaders are included.

For more information: Call us at 734-764-3967 or email us at advleadtrips@umich.edu

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Recreational / Games Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:32:36 -0400 2021-10-24T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Recreational / Games Group of students hiking
CANCELLED - An evening with SIMRIT (October 24, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83921 83921-21616896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 24, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Neo-Psychedelic World Beat & Ethereal Wave band, SIMRIT, has created waves with packed theaters and concert halls, chart-topping albums, and raving fans world-wide that have powered a palpable musical movement. Transcending genres with their eclectic and eccentric blend of instruments and lineages, the SIMRIT experience is based around its lead singer – songwriter, Simrit Kaur, born in Athens, Greece and adopted by Greek Americans into South Carolina. Filling out the SIMRIT sound and experience is Salif Bamakora on the 21-string west African kora. Shannon Hayden on electric cello (that she runs through a pedal board with wild effects) and guitar, Jared May on bass & Moog synthesizer, and Devon Ashley on drums and other percussion. Their music is known for its hypnotic, deep-pocket groove, haunting beauty, edge, and psychedelic atmosphere. It has been called exotic funk while also being likened to the epic, cinematic feels of David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino films.

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Performance Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:05:07 -0400 2021-10-24T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-24T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance An evening with SIMRIT presented by The Ark
Become a UROP Research Mentor (October 25, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 83879-21619569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

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Other Tue, 11 May 2021 12:45:19 -0400 2021-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Submit a Research Project
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 25, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Application Open (October 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87903 87903-21647501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Gain exposure to non-profits, research and Detroit in Summer 2022.

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

https://myumi.ch/erK95

Priority Deadline: December 3rd (5pm)
Final Application Deadline: January 31st 2022 (5pm)

Info Session offered Wednesdays at Noon weekly
From October 27 - December 8, January 5 - January 12
Register for an info session at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:17:43 -0500 2021-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Sweetland Write Together (October 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87110 87110-21638829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.
Join the session here

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:16:17 -0400 2021-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew? A Case in Jewish Diversity in the Second Temple Period (October 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87463 87463-21642274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Conference Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini; Lisa Bowens; Emma Wasserman; Loren Stuckenbruck

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Paul of Tarsus was born, lived and died a Jew. Raised as a Pharisee, he then joined the early Jesus movement, a first-century Jewish apocalyptic and messianic group. Paul became one of the most vocal leaders of the new movement and promoted its expansion among the gentiles. The conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, aims to move Pauline research to a further stage, beyond reclaiming Paul to Second Temple Judaism and proving that “he was not Lutheran.” By taking Paul’s Jewishness as a shared starting point, the conference explores the figure of Paul within Second Temple Judaism in a line of continuity with the Jewish apocalyptic tradition (and the Enochic tradition in particular), not as an apostate of Judaism but as part of the vibrant Jewish diversity of the time.

The conference will not be aimed at a general audience, but will instead bring together a group of selected specialists. It will be a workshop with discussion sessions introduced by oral presentations by specialists, more than a series of papers. The goal is to gather all major specialists working in the field and have plenty of time for discussion.

For more information, contact the conference secretary, Joshua Scott (scottjos@umich.edu).

Register for this virtual event here: https://tinyurl.com/p6kr29j5

Participation is limited to members of academia. As this meeting is closed to the general public, the registration process is not automatic; please be patient if there is a delay in the receipt of your registration.



Schedule
** This schedule is based on Eastern Daylight Time/New York time **

MONDAY Oct 25, 2021:

9am-11am — Opening session: Paul & Apocalypticism (chair Gabriele Boccaccini)

John J. Collins & Emma Wasserman (panelists), Daniele Minisini & Hwankyu Kim (shorter contributions)

11:30am-1:30pm — Session One: “The Origin of Evil, the Devil, and the Triumph of God on Evil Forces”

Lisa Bowens, Matthew Goff, Kelly J. Murphy (panelists)

Discussants : Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jamie Davies, David Burnett, Alexei Sivertsev, Mark Leuchter …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Two: ” Paul’s Apocalyptic Messianism “

Loren Stuckenbruck, L. Ann Jervis, Alexandra Brown, James Waddell (panelists)

Discussants : Deborah Forger, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Anne Kreps, David Burnett, Benjamin Reynolds, Dereck Daschke, Joshua Scott, Clint Burnett, Ron Herms …

TUESDAY, Oct 26, 2021:

9:00am-11:00am — Session Three: Paul and the Torah in an Apocalyptic Perspective

Matthew Novenson, Mark Kinzer , Joshua Garroway (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Yael Fisch, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Dereck Daschke, Jason Staples, David Rudolph …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Four: “Justification, Forgiveness, Judgment, and Salvation”

Magnus Zetterholm, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jamie Davies (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Jason Staples, Frantisek Abel …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Five: “No longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: Gender, ethnicity and social status in apocalyptic perspective”

Joseph Angel, Laura Dingeldein, J. Thomas Hewitt (panelists)

Discussants : Thomas Kazen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Jeremiah Coogan, Anders Runesson, Jim Scott, Ron Herms …

WEDNESDAY, Oct 27, 2021

9:00am-11:00am — Session Six: “Paul’s ‘Conversion’ within Judaism: an Apocalyptic Jew and a (Former?) Pharisee”

Gerbern Oegema, Mark Nanos, James Maston (panelists)

Discussants: Yael Fisch, Deborah Forger, Alexei Sivertsev …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Seven: “Paul within Paganism (Paula Fredriksen, chair)”

Jennifer Eyl, Stephen Young, Matthew Sharp, Matthew Thiessen (panelists)

Discussants : Stanley Stowers & Paula Fredriksen (respondents); Alexander Chantziantoniou, Anne Kreps, David Rudolph …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Wrap-up session: what’s next?


Participants:

Frantisek Abel, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Joseph Angel, Yeshiva University, USA
Daniel Atkins, PhD studies, University of Manchester, England
Lynne Bahr, Rockhurst University, USA
Lori Baron, Saint Louis University, USA
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edwards University, USA
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Daniel Boyarin, University of California Berkeley, USA
Lisa M. Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alexandra Brown, Washington & Lee University, USA
Clint Burnett, Johnson University, USA
David Burnett, PhD studies, Marquette University, USA
Rodney Caruthers, Gustavus College, USA
Alexander Chantziantoniou, PhD studies, University of Cambridge, England
Carsten Claussen, Elstal Theological Seminary, Germany
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Ryan Collman, PhD studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Jeremiah Coogan, University of Oxford, England
J. Andrew Cowan, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Dereck Daschke, Truman State University, USA
Jamie P. Davies, Trinity College, Bristol, England
Gail Dawson, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Genevive Dibley, Rockford University, USA
Laura Dingeldein, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada
Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Potsdam, Germany
Yael Fisch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, University of Gloucestershire, England
Deborah Forger, Dartmouth College, USA
Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michele Freyhauf, PhD studies, Durham University, England
Joshua D. Garroway, Hebrew Union College, USA
Emily Gathergood, PhD Studies, University of Nottingham, England
Matthew Goff, Florida State University, USA
Matthias Henze, Rice University, USA
Ron Herms, Fresno Pacific University, USA
J. Thomas Hewitt, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
L. Ann Jervis, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden
Hwankyu Kim, PhD studies, Rice University
Mark S. Kinzer, rabbi and author, USA
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Anne Kreps, University of Oregon, USA
Brent Landau, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Mark Leuchter, Temple University, USA
Grant Macaskill, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Jason Maston, Houston Baptist University, USA
Daniele Minisini, PhD studies, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Kelly J. Murphy, Central Michigan University, USA
Natalie Mylonas, Macquaire University, Australia
Mark Nanos, University of Kansas, USA
Jared Neusch, PhD studies, King’s College London, England
Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Gerbern Oegema, McGill University, Canada
Markus Oehler, University of Vienna, Austria
Isaac Oliver, Bradley University, USA
B.J. Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Benjamin Reynolds, Tyndale University, Canada
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
David Rudolph, The King’s University, USA
Anders Runesson, University of Oslo, Norway
Joshua Scott, PhD studies, University of Michigan, USA
Joel Sienkiewicz, PhD studies, Westminster Theological Seminary
Alexei Sivertsev, DePaul University, USA
Jason Staples, North Carolina State University, USA
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany
Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University, Canada
Ana Travessos Valdez, University of Lisbon, Portugal
James Waddell, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA
Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield, England
Emma Wasserman, Rutgers University, USA
Jim West, Trinity Western University, Canada
Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity, Australia
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan, USA
Magnus Zettelholm, Lund University, Sweden
Philip Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:48:34 -0400 2021-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Apocalyptic Paul
Write-Togethers (October 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85156 85156-21625654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

Where
Google doc link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wWLfQZ2ZNbfEeiUCUoKRE6y1l98mAKZA7NsjCpyn604/edit

More information:
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:47:35 -0400 2021-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Livestream / Virtual Write-Togethers
CSEAS Lecture Series. The Past, Present, and Future of LGBT Activism in Singapore: A Roundtable on Pink Dot (October 25, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87823 87823-21647043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to the public. Register at: http://myumi.ch/0W3r9

This roundtable panel discusses the success and limits of an annual LGBT event called Pink Dot that began in Singapore, a city-state that imposes significant barriers to political organizing. The first decade of Pink Dot has now come to an end, but it is clear that the annual event has had a significant impact in terms of increased visibility for a marginalized community. Yet, despite the successes of Pink Dot, very little has concretely changed in Singapore for LGBT individuals.

In July 2021, the Journal of Language and Sexuality (J. Lang. Sex.) published the first special issue dedicated to Pink Dot. In exploring the use of language in the Pink Dot movement, the articles in this special issue simultaneously grapple with the past decade of Pink Dot and explore whether LGBT activism in Singapore might be evolving beyond the relatively ‘acceptable’ approach of Pink Dot’s strategic assimilationism.

The panel will be joined by the acclaimed Singaporean poet Alfian Sa’at, Professor Michelle Lazar of the National University of Singapore, and the three editors of the J. Lang. Sex. Professor Adi Saleem Bharat of the University of Michigan, Professor Robert Phillips of Ball State University, and Ph.D. student candidate Pavan Mano of King’s College London.

PANELISTS:

Alfian Sa’at is the resident playwright of Wild Rice. Some of his queer-themed plays include *Dreamplay: Asian Boys Vol. 1*, *Landmarks: Asian Boys Vol. 2*, *Happy Endings: Asian Boys Vol. 3*, and *The Insiders*. In 2012, he published a collection of queer poetry called *The Invisible Manuscript*. He was also part of the original committee that organized the first *Pink Dot* in 2009.

Michelle Lazar is associate professor and head of the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore. With research interests in critical discourse studies and multimodality, Lazar has published widely in the areas of gender, sexuality, media, and politics. She was the recipient of the 2018 IGALA Best Article Award for her research on the discourse of homonationalism in a global southern context.

Robert Phillips is an associate professor of anthropology at Ball State University. He lectures on ethnographic methods and the anthropology of religion. Much of his empirical research was conducted in India and Singapore, focusing on the intersection of religion, technology, and cultural change. Most recently, Phillips has been conducting research with Jewish, queer, and BIPOC communities to understand how and why they employ alternative healthcare models in the healing of individual and communal trauma.

Pavan Mano is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at King’s College London. He works primarily in the cultural studies tradition at the intersections of language and literature. His current research deals with the heteronormativity and the politics of kinship, race, nationalism, and the operation of xenology produced as a function of these logics.

Adi Saleem Bharat is an LSA Collegiate Fellow and, from Fall 2022, an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. His research examines the intersection of race, religion, gender, and sexuality in contemporary France, with a focus on Jews and Muslims. As a Singaporean, he also maintains an active interest in contemporary Southeast Asia.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:50:47 -0400 2021-10-25T09:30:00-04:00 2021-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion
“Cassandra Speaks: When Women are the Storytellers, The Human Story Changes”, by Elizabeth Lesser: A Book Study (October 25, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85558 85558-21626848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join us for a lively discussion of the book “Cassandra Speaks: When Women Tell the Stories, the Human Story Changes”, by Elizabeth Lesser. Part One explores the myths and stories that are in the DNA of our culture. Part Two looks at women and power and redefines what it means to be courageous, daring, and strong. And Part Three offers “A Toolbox for Inner Strength.”
Written in a fun and delightful way, Lesser points out many truths about how out of balance the United States is, and also believes in humanity's potential to rise to the challenges of our times. Women must be a big part of this. Instructors Bernadette Beach and Sigrid Herman will lead this Study Group.
This study group will meet on Mondays for six weeks beginning on October 25. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:00:13 -0400 2021-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Social, Behavioral and Experimental Economics (SBEE) Seminar: A Lot of Diversity is Good. A Little Diversity..... On the Possibility of Collectively Accurate Classifications: A Cognitive/Computational Unpacking of Condorcet (October 25, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88314 88314-21652403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
In this talk, I will provide a cognitive/computational unpacking of the Condorcet Jury Theorem. The core of the talk will focus on a paper co-authored with Lu Hong, in which we construct a formal framework to study group accuracy on classification tasks. In the paper, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for perfect accuracy and then characterize a group’s ability to make accurate classifications as a function of its diversity, size, and the accuracy of its members. For groups relying on the majority rule, we show that increasing individual accuracy produces a setwise increase in collective accuracy, but that, contrary to intuition, increases in group size do not. We further show that increasing diversity, as measured by pairwise disagreement, only guarantees increased accuracy for highly diverse groups. Finally, we derive a general condition for increasing group size to raise or lower expected accuracy assuming individuals drawn from a population. In addition to the paper, I will reframe the model using disciplinary lenses to discuss the potential for making good decision in complex environments.

(To attend this online event, please complete the form to receive email instructions and announcements for this and future SBEE Seminars.)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Oct 2021 11:48:45 -0400 2021-10-25T11:30:00-04:00 2021-10-25T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar SBEE seminar series
Developmental Brown Bag: Understanding the invisible: Children’s knowledge and misconceptions of COVID-19 transmission (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87066 87066-21638560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
As children have returned to the classroom, COVID-19 cases in children have increased, highlighting the importance of getting children to abide by health-promoting behaviors. Previous research has indicated that children are unlikely to abide by “Do’s and Don’ts” without a causal understanding of relevant processes. To that end, we investigated 5–12-year-old children’s (and their parents’) knowledge of COVID-19 transmission. In this talk, I will present preliminary data on common misconceptions children hold about COVID-19 transmission and discuss points of interest for future investigations and interventions.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:21:48 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Labotka
Is the Phone Mightier than the Virus? Cell Phone Access and Epidemic Containment Efforts (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88052 88052-21648952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This talk examines the impact of mobile phone access on the containment of an epidemic. Speaker Elisa Maffioli et al. study this question in the context of the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia. They found that having access to cell phone coverage leads to a 10.8 percentage point reduction in the likelihood that a village has an EVD case. Results from this novel survey collected following the epidemic suggest that this is mostly explained by cellphone access facilitating emergency care provision rather than improving access to outbreak-related information.

Dr. Maffioli is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Management and Policy, at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research is in development economics, health economics and political economy, with a focus on infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and nutrition in lower income countries. She is currently working in Liberia, Myanmar, Brazil, Mozambique and Nigeria, and has also conducted research in Lesotho, Kenya and India.


Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:02:51 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Online Tai Chi with Olivia Musat (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88610 88610-21656187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Register at https://myumi.ch/mnGvP

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:15:13 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Online Tai Chi with Olivia Musat
PICS Career Event. Humanitarian and International Development Careers with Mercy Corps (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85773 85773-21628980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Interested in humanitarian and international development careers with Mercy Corps? Join us to learn from Michelle LeMeur, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Director, Mercy Corps Nepal.

Please note: This session will be held virtually ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to students, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/Ww2MM

Michelle LeMeur is the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Director with Mercy Corps Nepal's USAID-funded BHAKARI (Building Hope Along the Karnali River Basin) program. Her professional and extracurricular GESI experience has centered on programmatic and organizational mainstreaming including diagnostics, analyses, project management, and training. Previously, she worked as the Program Development & Grants Manager with the Mercy Corps Mali team, and focused on proposal development, internal and door reporting, program quality, and gender and inclusion technical support. She has humanitarian and development experience in the sectors of economic recovery and market systems, agriculture and food security, shelter and settlements, WASH, food assistance, resilience, education, and peacebuilding, spanning Nepal, Mali, Niger, Malaysia, Thailand, Italy, and the US. She holds a Master’s degree in International Development and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors in International Studies from the same institution.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at is-michigan@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:39:41 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Program in International and Comparative Studies Livestream / Virtual Michelle LeMeur, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Director, Mercy Corps Nepal
Public Finance: (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87978 87978-21648128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:11:39 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Graduate Student Career Pathways: Interviewing for Jobs Beyond the Professoriate (October 25, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86356 86356-21632954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop will meet the needs of those applying for Rackham internship programs, but is open to any graduate students seeking guidance around interviewing for positions beyond tenure track roles, which can differ greatly from the academic job search process. It will focus on preparing graduate students to navigate the interview process, and to effectively answer questions by strategically articulating strengths and skills.
This workshop is part of the Rackham North Workshop Series although graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from all campuses are welcome to attend.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/jxMpN.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:16:57 -0400 2021-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (October 25, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-21637449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (October 25, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86134 86134-21631716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday and Wednesday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Oct 2021 18:16:49 -0400 2021-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
A Conversation on the Bicentennial Celebrations of the Greek Revolution of 1821 (October 25, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88231 88231-21651559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Modern Greek Program

University of Michigan Modern Greek Program presents:

Monday, October 25th at 3PM EDT, livestreamed via Zoom*

A Conversation on the Bicentennial Celebrations of the Greek Revolution of 1821

Participants: Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University) and Vassilis Lambropoulos, with Artemis Leontis and Will Stroebel (University of Michigan)

*Livestreamed via Zoom
Registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hEmI9dySQQu0m9guR2z-qQ

Sponsored by the Modern Greek Program in the Department of Classical Studies. Please share widely! Captioning will be available live and a video recording will be available after the event. All the speaker's bios can be found following the links given with their names. Please note that Professor Hamilakis has a new book, Archaeology, Nation, and Race: Confronting the Past, Decolonizing the Future in Greece and Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2022), that is relevant to the discussion.

Yannis Hamilakis' biography: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/yhamilak

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Oct 2021 14:06:02 -0400 2021-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Modern Greek Program Livestream / Virtual
HEP-Astro Seminar | The Search for New Physics With Rare Kaon Decays at the CERN SPS (October 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86657 86657-21635381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Zoom link:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91409362110?pwd=UDlja2FuYlZWVFNEMWFrOTlkWFNEZz09

Precise measurements of the branching ratios (BRs) for the flavor-changing neutral current decays K → πνν ̄ can provide unique constraints on CKM unitarity and, potentially, evidence for the existence of new physics. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS was designed to measure BR(K + → π +νν) with a precision of about 10%. The key features of the experiment include ultrafast tracking for both beam and secondary particles, redundant particle identification, hermetic photon vetoes, and high-performance electromagnetic calorimetry. The experiment took data from 2016–2018 before LHC Long Shutdown 2, obtaining a measurement of BR(K + → π + νν) in agreement with the Standard Model prediction, establishing the existence of the decay at the 3.4σ level and providing new constraints on models for physics beyond the Standard Model. The data collected in 2016–2018 correspond to 20% of the expected total; the experiment restarted data taking in July 2021 and will be completed in 2024. Over the longer term, the continued availability of the primary proton beam from the CERN SPS through at least 2036 provides an opportunity for an integrated program for precise measurements of rare kaon decays, both charged and neutral, to give clear insight into the flavor structure of new physics. This program will make use of a significantly upgraded NA62-like setup with detectors that can be reconfigured and reused in various experimental stages, including a measurement of BR(K + → π + νν) to ∼5%, a measurement of BR(KL → π 0 νν) to ∼20% (KLEVER), and a program with a neutral beam and downstream detectors for tracking and particle identification to allow the study of decays such as KL → π^0 \ell^+ \ell^−. In this seminar, the recent results from NA62 will be reviewed, and future directions for the kaon program at CERN will be described.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Oct 2021 18:15:57 -0400 2021-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
STS Speaker. RoboTruckers: The Double Threat of AI for Low-Wage Work (October 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86238 86238-21632207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Much attention has been paid to the risk artificial intelligence poses to employment, particularly in low-wage industries. The question has invited well-placed concern from policymakers, as the prospect of millions of low-skilled workers finding themselves suddenly without employment brings with it the potential for tremendous social and economic disruption. Long-haul truck driving is perceived as a prime target for such displacement, due to the fast-developing technical capabilities of autonomous vehicles (many of which lend themselves to the specific needs of truck driving), characteristics of trucking labor, and the political economy of the industry. In most of the public rhetoric about the threat of the self-driving truck, the trucker is seen as a displaced party. He is displaced both physically and economically: removed from the cab of the truck, and from his means of economic provision. The robot has replaced his imperfect, disobedient, tired, and inefficient body, rendering him redundant, irrelevant, and jobless. But the reality is more complicated. The intrusion of automation into the truck cab certainly presents a threat to the trucker, but the threat is not solely or even primarily experienced, as it is so often described, as displacement. The trucker is still in the cab, doing the work of truck driving—but he is joined there by intelligent systems that monitor his body directly. Hats that monitor his brain waves and head position, vests that track his heart rate, cameras trained on his eyelids for signs of fatigue or inattention: these systems flash lights in his face, jolt his seat, and send reports to his dispatcher or even his family members should the trucker’s focus waver. As more trucking firms integrate such technologies into their safety programs, truckers are not being displaced by intelligent systems so much as they are experiencing the emergence of intelligent systems as a compelled hybridization, a very intimate incursion into their work and bodies. This paper considers the dual, conflicting narratives of job replacement by robots and of bodily integration with robots, to assess the true range of AI's potential effects on low-wage work.

Karen Levy is an Assistant Professor of Information Science at Cornell University and Associated Faculty at Cornell Law School. She is a sociologist and lawyer whose research focuses on legal, social, and ethical dimensions of data-intensive technologies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:36:28 -0400 2021-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion An advertisement for an anti-fatigue monitoring system for truckers
U-M School of Nursing Transfer Information Session (October 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86336 86336-21632746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

Join the School of Nursing to learn about transferring into our BSN program!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:14:49 -0400 2021-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Livestream / Virtual
Lecture: LA Más (October 25, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88235 88235-21651564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

LA Más co-founder Elizabeth Timme and Backyard Homes program manager Chaz Kern will share more on the firm's work.

LA Más designs and builds initiatives that promote neighborhood resilience and elevate the agency of working class communities of color. They envision a Northeast Los Angeles where communities of color have equitable access to the power and resources needed to shape their futures.

Across Los Angeles’ diverse neighborhoods, LA Más has collaborated with residents, community organizations, and local government agencies to execute thoughtful, playful, and contextually designed projects. Serving as an intermediary between community members and policymakers, LA Más’ projects have focused on elevating what already works – demonstrating that smaller, community-scale urban developments can preserve a neighborhood’s local identity. This has included working in the public realm to create safe pedestrian experiences, empowering small business owners through design, and building alternative affordable housing.

This event will be presented virtually. Following the lecture, LA Más will be joined by Taubman College faculty Sharon Haar and Ellie Abrons for a conversation around affordable housing.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:19:19 -0400 2021-10-25T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion LA Mas ADU
Improvisation & Encounter: Festivals (October 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87348 87348-21641292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Center for World Performance Studies presents the first in a series of virtual roundtable discussion curated by Scholar-in-Residency Ajay Heble, exploring the theme of Improvisation & Encounter. Drawing its inspiration in part from The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation, a collaboratively-authored book by Daniel Fischlin, George Lipsitz, and Ajay Heble, this series of online roundtable conversations will explore Improvisation in the arts as a scene of encounter. What happens when artists come together to improvise, and what might this scene of encounter tell us about the staging and negotiation of difference: between artists, between artists and audiences, between the present moment and the varied histories and contexts that gave rise to it?

Moderated by Ajay Heble, and presented in association with Edgefest, the focus of the first panel is FESTIVALS, and brings together three leaders in the curatorial field. Vocalist Deanna Relyea was the founder of Kerrytown Concert House and is the current Artistic Director of Edgefest, Michigan’s long running avant-jazz festival. Dancer, poet and organizer of movement, music and causes Patricia Nicholson Parker has developed her work within the aesthetic of free jazz. Nicholson founded Arts For Art and the Vision Festival to promote and advocate for free jazz. Rainbow Robert is a relentless proponent of strange, beautiful, heavy music. She has been deeply involved with the jazz community in Canada for the past two decades through her work with Coastal Jazz, and as producer of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, where she currently serves in the role of Managing Artistic Director.

Scholar-in-Residence Ajay Heble is Director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and Professor of English in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. He is the author or editor of several books, and a founding co-editor of the journal Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation (www.criticalimprov.com ). He was the Project Director for Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice, a large-scale Major Collaborative Research Initiative, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. As the Founder and Artistic Director of the Guelph Jazz Festival, Heble has jolted the citizens of Guelph into an appreciation of improvised and avant-garde music and delighted aficionados from around the world with his innovative and daring programming.

If you require accommodation to participate in CWPS events, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777 or cwps.information@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:03:34 -0400 2021-10-25T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Improv & Encounter
Ace Week Programming (October 25, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88419 88419-21653862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
Ace Week Programs
October 24th - 30th
All events will be held virtually

Ace/Aro Centerspace Discussion
When: Monday, October 25th from 7:30-8:30 pm
Join the asexual and aromantic centerspace for a multi-faceted discussion about asexuality and how it affects our experiences and identity. Please note that this event is only for members of the ace/aro spectrum and questioning individuals. We will be discussing asexuality and what the community means to us, navigating relationships, and intersectionality when it comes to the ace community. Come to discuss these topics or to learn from others!

Aces in Academia Student Panel
When: Wednesday, October 27th at 6 pm
This year we're having a brand new event where asexual students will be discussing their experiences and answering questions. This event is open to anyone, allies and asexuals! Submit questions via the chat, learn about the experiences of other students, support the asexual UMich community, and learn how to be an ally to aces!

Putting the Ace in Sex Ed
When: Friday, October 29th from 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Most sexual education is not ace-friendly, much less ace-focused, and we're going to take a stab at fixing that! This interactive workshop will focus on defining terms like consent, desire, and arousal, communication in relationships, setting boundaries, and being proud of your identity! You will be invited to reflect on how you experience your sexuality and have the opportunity to learn from asexual and ace-spectrum experiences. his event is open to anyone, allies and asexuals!

Ace/Aro Centerspace Social Event
When: Saturday, October 30th at 1 pm
Wrap up Ace Week by hanging out with your fellow asexual and aromantics! We'll be playing games and bonding and in general having a relaxing and fun time! Please note that this event is only for members of the ace/aro spectrum and questioning individuals.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Other Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:07:24 -0400 2021-10-25T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-25T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Other All four Ace Week event titles and dates with a word or two about the kind of event it is. The graphic has the same black, white, purple, and grey color scheme as the asexual pride flag.
Steve Forbert - rescheduled from 6/6/21 (October 25, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73505 73505-18252269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Steve Forbert is one of the few artists who can mesmerize a crowd with nothing but a distinctive voice, an acoustic guitar and his trusty harmonica slung around his neck. More than four decades have passed since Forbert first made his way to New York City from Meridian, Mississippi and his intimate verbal imagery, paired with a roots-rock musical approach, struck a chord with millions of people during the transitional period between ‘70s folk-rock and ‘80s New Wave.

​Forbert’s debut album, ‘Alive On Arrival’, became one of 1978's most acclaimed records. Rolling Stone contributing editor David Wild recently reflected that “now or then, you would be hard-pressed to find a debut effort that was simultaneously as fresh and accomplished,” comparing it to “a great first novel by a young author who somehow managed to split the difference between Mark Twain and J.D. Salinger.”

One Track from that album, “Grand Central Station, March 18, 1977”, earned him a spot on the 2014 Village Voice list of The 60 Best Songs Ever Written About New York City, along with many musical heavyweights like Jim Croce, Tom Waits and Frank Sinatra. 

​Hailed by The New York Times as “an introspective, homespun philosopher,” Forbert's second album, Jackrabbit Slim, released in 1979 achieved RIAA Gold record status on the strength of its hit single “Romeo’s Tune,” which reached #11 on the Billboard charts and helped cement his status as a genuine craftsman. Jackrabbit Slim was re-mastered and re-released in 2019 by Blue Rose Music to commemorate its 40th anniversary.

​Forbert’s songs have been covered by a wide range of artists, from Keith Urban and Rosanne Cash to Marty Stuart and John Popper. Forbert also appeared opposite Cyndi Lauper in her iconic music video for ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’! 

​Forbert has released 20 studio albums, including a Grammy-nominated tribute to Mississippi legend, Jimmie Rodgers. In 2017, An American Troubadour: The Songs of Steve Forbert was released, featuring renowned musicians like John Oates and Robert Earl Keen, performing his songs.

​In 2018, Forbert published his memoir Big City Cat: My Life in Folk-Rock.  “Like the earlier Bob Dylan and Patti Smith books, Forbert has a warm way of describing the pull of NYC and the ensuing challenges of getting traction, against the context of a small-town upbringing. He offers a sparkling observation about the pull of music as excellent as any I have seen,” says Entertainment Today.

​This year, Forbert was the recipient of the 2020 Governor’s Arts Award in his home state of Mississippi, having already been inducted into the  Mississippi Musician’s Hall of Fame in 2016.

​Anyone who reviews Steve's catalog of music can see the writer in the musician. His songs are as literary as they are musically vibrant. Brutally honest lyrics delivered with sensitivity create an uncommon trust with his listeners. Excelling in every decade of his career, Forbert exemplifies the heart and soul of the troubadour tradition. 

​On May 1, 2020 via Blue Rose Music, Steve will release a cover record of 11 of his favorite folk-rock songs, entitled Early Morning Rain. "I recorded this album in an attempt to renew people's appreciation for the fine craftsmanship these songs represent," says Forbert, "and as an acknowledgement of how much good ‘ol songs like these have meant to me.”

​Forbert continues to tour extensively, both nationally and internationally.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:16:01 -0400 2021-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Steve Forbert at The Ark
University of Michigan Book Arts Symposium (October 26, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88346 88346-21653422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

For each of two evening sessions, four presenters — book arts educators, students, and/or community members — each have 15 minutes to share about a project they are working on or a facet of their book-arts-related work that they are passionate about. We'll have about 30 minutes after the presentations for Q&A or discussion. Please register and we'll send you more information along with a Zoom link: https://myumi.ch/YybyM

Presenters on Tuesday, October 26th include Lee Marchalonis, Fritz Swanson, Toby Millman, and Jim Horton. Presenters on Wednesday, October 27th include Ingrid Ankerson, Endi Poskovic, Gabe Brower, and Emily Legleitner.

Read more about the presenters and their talks: https://myumi.ch/er5rn

We hope you can join us for this first University of Michigan Book Arts Symposium, which was developed to build community, promote a sense of unity, and cultivate an atmosphere of collaboration and connection across the multiple manifestations of the book arts programs and educational initiatives on the U-M Ann Arbor campus and related Washtenaw County communities.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:57:53 -0400 2021-10-26T07:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Conference / Symposium Collage of artists' books
Become a UROP Research Mentor (October 26, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 83879-21619570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

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Other Tue, 11 May 2021 12:45:19 -0400 2021-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Submit a Research Project
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 26, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Virtual Job Shadow Program with Dr. Verma (October 26, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88063 88063-21654240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Elective surgeries are a cornerstone of our healthcare system that is focused on increasing a patient’s well-being and quality of life. At a time when elective surgeries have been impacted significantly by the pandemic with longer waiting periods, reschedules, or even cancellations, the ability to schedule those potentially life-changing operations in advance has been compromised. Join us for a live look into an arthroscopic rotator cuff surgery as Dr. Nikhil Verma uses advanced surgical techniques to fix a tear in a rotator cuff.


About Dr. Verma   

Dr. Verma is a Sports Medicine and Shoulder physician who performs over 500 procedures per year. He specializes in the treatment of the shoulder, elbow, and knee with an emphasis on advanced arthroscopic reconstructive techniques. He is the Director of the Division of Sports Medicine and Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship Program at Rush University Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Verma serves as a team physician for the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls.


You should attend this session if you are: 

A liberal arts and/or science undergraduate student
Searching for opportunities to shadow a physician at their clinical practice
Exploring careers and specialties in medicine and healthcare
Looking to explore different medical fields from the perspective of a physician

What you’ll gain from attending:

The opportunity to watch a live surgery performed by a physician and his team using leading technology in the field
The chance to ask the physician questions about the surgery and his work more broadly
Gain insight into how the physicians are handling elective surgeries during COVID-19


RSVP today on the LSA Opportunity Network to reserve your spot to view this live surgery. Seats will be capped at 95. Once your RSVP is complete, you will receive a confirmation email with the event details and a link to access the live viewing 24 hours before the event takes place.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials will be shared in advance and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations, or for any further questions, please contact Jordan McAdory at jcmcado@umich.edu so we can make arrangements.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:40:01 -0400 2021-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Surgery Stock Photo
Change it Up!© (October 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85391 85391-21626353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Change It Up!© brings bystander intervention skills to students for the purpose of building supportive and respectful communities. Change It Up! is based on a nationally recognized five-step bystander intervention model that develops students’ skills and confidence when intervening in situations that negatively impact campus climate. This workshop explores how students’ identities and experiences impact their interactions inside and outside of the classroom. Through interactive theater, students apply the five steps to real-life scenarios and have an opportunity to practice and discuss how they can leverage these skills within their campus communities.

Gain an understanding of what it means to be a bystander and factors that influence intervention
Gain multiple strategies to intervene and disrupt harm, such as microaggressions, bias incidents, stereotyping, sexual harassment, etc.
Act as an ally and educator, especially when you hold privilege and power and witness harm to those who do not hold privilege and power
Learn how to receive and respond to feedback about harm you caused, even if unintentional

This workshop is designed for master’s students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/yKygP.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:15:31 -0400 2021-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Application Open (October 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87903 87903-21647502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Gain exposure to non-profits, research and Detroit in Summer 2022.

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

https://myumi.ch/erK95

Priority Deadline: December 3rd (5pm)
Final Application Deadline: January 31st 2022 (5pm)

Info Session offered Wednesdays at Noon weekly
From October 27 - December 8, January 5 - January 12
Register for an info session at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:17:43 -0500 2021-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew? A Case in Jewish Diversity in the Second Temple Period (October 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87463 87463-21642275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Conference Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini; Lisa Bowens; Emma Wasserman; Loren Stuckenbruck

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Paul of Tarsus was born, lived and died a Jew. Raised as a Pharisee, he then joined the early Jesus movement, a first-century Jewish apocalyptic and messianic group. Paul became one of the most vocal leaders of the new movement and promoted its expansion among the gentiles. The conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, aims to move Pauline research to a further stage, beyond reclaiming Paul to Second Temple Judaism and proving that “he was not Lutheran.” By taking Paul’s Jewishness as a shared starting point, the conference explores the figure of Paul within Second Temple Judaism in a line of continuity with the Jewish apocalyptic tradition (and the Enochic tradition in particular), not as an apostate of Judaism but as part of the vibrant Jewish diversity of the time.

The conference will not be aimed at a general audience, but will instead bring together a group of selected specialists. It will be a workshop with discussion sessions introduced by oral presentations by specialists, more than a series of papers. The goal is to gather all major specialists working in the field and have plenty of time for discussion.

For more information, contact the conference secretary, Joshua Scott (scottjos@umich.edu).

Register for this virtual event here: https://tinyurl.com/p6kr29j5

Participation is limited to members of academia. As this meeting is closed to the general public, the registration process is not automatic; please be patient if there is a delay in the receipt of your registration.



Schedule
** This schedule is based on Eastern Daylight Time/New York time **

MONDAY Oct 25, 2021:

9am-11am — Opening session: Paul & Apocalypticism (chair Gabriele Boccaccini)

John J. Collins & Emma Wasserman (panelists), Daniele Minisini & Hwankyu Kim (shorter contributions)

11:30am-1:30pm — Session One: “The Origin of Evil, the Devil, and the Triumph of God on Evil Forces”

Lisa Bowens, Matthew Goff, Kelly J. Murphy (panelists)

Discussants : Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jamie Davies, David Burnett, Alexei Sivertsev, Mark Leuchter …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Two: ” Paul’s Apocalyptic Messianism “

Loren Stuckenbruck, L. Ann Jervis, Alexandra Brown, James Waddell (panelists)

Discussants : Deborah Forger, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Anne Kreps, David Burnett, Benjamin Reynolds, Dereck Daschke, Joshua Scott, Clint Burnett, Ron Herms …

TUESDAY, Oct 26, 2021:

9:00am-11:00am — Session Three: Paul and the Torah in an Apocalyptic Perspective

Matthew Novenson, Mark Kinzer , Joshua Garroway (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Yael Fisch, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Dereck Daschke, Jason Staples, David Rudolph …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Four: “Justification, Forgiveness, Judgment, and Salvation”

Magnus Zetterholm, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jamie Davies (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Jason Staples, Frantisek Abel …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Five: “No longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: Gender, ethnicity and social status in apocalyptic perspective”

Joseph Angel, Laura Dingeldein, J. Thomas Hewitt (panelists)

Discussants : Thomas Kazen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Jeremiah Coogan, Anders Runesson, Jim Scott, Ron Herms …

WEDNESDAY, Oct 27, 2021

9:00am-11:00am — Session Six: “Paul’s ‘Conversion’ within Judaism: an Apocalyptic Jew and a (Former?) Pharisee”

Gerbern Oegema, Mark Nanos, James Maston (panelists)

Discussants: Yael Fisch, Deborah Forger, Alexei Sivertsev …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Seven: “Paul within Paganism (Paula Fredriksen, chair)”

Jennifer Eyl, Stephen Young, Matthew Sharp, Matthew Thiessen (panelists)

Discussants : Stanley Stowers & Paula Fredriksen (respondents); Alexander Chantziantoniou, Anne Kreps, David Rudolph …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Wrap-up session: what’s next?


Participants:

Frantisek Abel, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Joseph Angel, Yeshiva University, USA
Daniel Atkins, PhD studies, University of Manchester, England
Lynne Bahr, Rockhurst University, USA
Lori Baron, Saint Louis University, USA
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edwards University, USA
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Daniel Boyarin, University of California Berkeley, USA
Lisa M. Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alexandra Brown, Washington & Lee University, USA
Clint Burnett, Johnson University, USA
David Burnett, PhD studies, Marquette University, USA
Rodney Caruthers, Gustavus College, USA
Alexander Chantziantoniou, PhD studies, University of Cambridge, England
Carsten Claussen, Elstal Theological Seminary, Germany
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Ryan Collman, PhD studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Jeremiah Coogan, University of Oxford, England
J. Andrew Cowan, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Dereck Daschke, Truman State University, USA
Jamie P. Davies, Trinity College, Bristol, England
Gail Dawson, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Genevive Dibley, Rockford University, USA
Laura Dingeldein, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada
Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Potsdam, Germany
Yael Fisch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, University of Gloucestershire, England
Deborah Forger, Dartmouth College, USA
Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michele Freyhauf, PhD studies, Durham University, England
Joshua D. Garroway, Hebrew Union College, USA
Emily Gathergood, PhD Studies, University of Nottingham, England
Matthew Goff, Florida State University, USA
Matthias Henze, Rice University, USA
Ron Herms, Fresno Pacific University, USA
J. Thomas Hewitt, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
L. Ann Jervis, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden
Hwankyu Kim, PhD studies, Rice University
Mark S. Kinzer, rabbi and author, USA
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Anne Kreps, University of Oregon, USA
Brent Landau, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Mark Leuchter, Temple University, USA
Grant Macaskill, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Jason Maston, Houston Baptist University, USA
Daniele Minisini, PhD studies, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Kelly J. Murphy, Central Michigan University, USA
Natalie Mylonas, Macquaire University, Australia
Mark Nanos, University of Kansas, USA
Jared Neusch, PhD studies, King’s College London, England
Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Gerbern Oegema, McGill University, Canada
Markus Oehler, University of Vienna, Austria
Isaac Oliver, Bradley University, USA
B.J. Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Benjamin Reynolds, Tyndale University, Canada
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
David Rudolph, The King’s University, USA
Anders Runesson, University of Oslo, Norway
Joshua Scott, PhD studies, University of Michigan, USA
Joel Sienkiewicz, PhD studies, Westminster Theological Seminary
Alexei Sivertsev, DePaul University, USA
Jason Staples, North Carolina State University, USA
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany
Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University, Canada
Ana Travessos Valdez, University of Lisbon, Portugal
James Waddell, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA
Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield, England
Emma Wasserman, Rutgers University, USA
Jim West, Trinity Western University, Canada
Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity, Australia
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan, USA
Magnus Zettelholm, Lund University, Sweden
Philip Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:48:34 -0400 2021-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Apocalyptic Paul
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (October 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-21637432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-10-26T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
CSCS Seminar | Cooperation, stochasticity, and stability, or: when will the world appear neutral, and when won’t it? (October 26, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87664 87664-21644960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

ZOOM MEETING
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96616169868
Passcode: CSCS

Abstract: Models of microbial interactions have been developed in recent years, drawing from taxonomic abundances via amplicon sequencing. Many of these models assume that dynamics through time are primarily driven by pairwise interactions between taxa, but with the drawback that how these interaction strengths may change with environmental context is less than clear. Here we model the consumption and exchange of resources explicitly, and show that these processes imply new results and principles for the stability of ecological communities. We go on to develop stochastic versions of these models, and demonstrate a transition between regimes that resemble neutral and niche-dominated dynamics and static patterns. Finally, I’ll show some recent work on more general stochastic models with individual variation, and their consequences for coexistence and stability.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:06:35 -0400 2021-10-26T11:30:00-04:00 2021-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar James Patrick O'Dwyer
2021 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit DEI at 5 Years: A 360° View (October 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88277 88277-21652020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM

Reflecting on the accomplishments of the first five years of the
University’s strategic plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion
with the Voices of the Staff DEI Team.
Panelists
Dr. David Brown, Associate Vice President & Associate Dean
for Health Equity and Inclusion at Michigan Medicine
Lauren Davis, Director of Diversity, Equity and Community, School for Environment and Sustainability
Nicole Figueroa, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Resilience and Wellbeing Nurse Leader, Michigan Medicine Nursing
Dr. Robert Sellers, Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer
Moderator
Dr. Jessica Garcia, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager for the College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts.
REGISTRATION
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U7cpRgC7SZ6h2uFEYpnmjQ

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:12:35 -0400 2021-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM Livestream / Virtual 2021 Flyer DEI Town Hall
Coffee Chat: Career Planning for Graduate Students (October 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88549 88549-21655072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

In this session you’ll have the opportunity to learn more about Rackham’s resources for professional development, techniques for exploring career interests outside of academia, advice for networking, and more! Please note that this session is geared towards first and second year graduate students, but all our welcome.
Presenters: Kirsten Elling, Coordinator, Graduate Student Career Advancement, University Career Center and Lauren Sirota, Ph.D. Student, English Language and Literature and Graduate Student Staff Assistant, Rackham Professional Development and Engagement
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/K4DZy.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 Oct 2021 12:16:31 -0400 2021-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
ECRC Job Search Strategies Workshop (October 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85543 85543-21626832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

In this lecture style workshop, you'll learn how to identify employers, search for job postings, and create custom materials and apply. There will also be time at the end of the presentation to ask questions to the presenter either verbally or through the chat window. The workshop slides are available in advance on the ECRC website.

Please let us know how we can ensure that this event is inclusive to you. What accommodations or access needs can we help facilitate? Email the ECRC at ecrc-info@umich.edu to let us know what accommodations you may need.

The workshop will be conducted via this Zoom link:https://umich.zoom.us/j/98051287346

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:41:29 -0400 2021-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Ecology of China’s Early Political Systems (October 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84787 84787-21624974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/dOlYw

By encouraging us to rethink familiar historical processes through an ecological lens, the field of environmental history provides new insights into the past. Professor Lander’s forthcoming book The King’s Harvest uses such an ecological perspective to examine the formation of political organizations in early China. Since early political systems were funded by the grain taxes of common farmers, it follows that these systems literally ran on solar energy collected by plants, so we should think of them as organizations dedicated to mobilizing photosynthetic energy. Early states devoted much of that energy to assembling large groups of men to fight with other groups of armed men, but they also used it to expand farmland and increase the human population in the interests of increasing their tax income. This paper will use these insights to explore the history of the state and empire of Qin (c. 800-207 BCE). Qin established the centralized bureaucratic empire which became the standard model of political organization in China, bequeathing subsequent empires with administrative skills that helped them thoroughly transform East Asia’s environments.

Brian Lander studies the environmental history and archaeology of early China. He is an assistant professor at Brown University, where he teaches in history and environmental studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:21:13 -0400 2021-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Brian Lander, Assistant Professor of History and Environment Studies, Department of History, Brown University
PICS Career Event. Nuclear Nonproliferation and Arms Control: Challenges, Opportunities, and Careers (October 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87354 87354-21641507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

The international community faces no shortage of challenges when it comes to preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. The crisis in US-Russia relations, the slow pace of nuclear disarmament, the future of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, and the emergence of new technologies with military applications–these are just a few of the issues that nuclear policy professionals are working to address today. Each of these problems will require creative ideas and novel methodological approaches to surmount. This talk will highlight different opportunities and career paths for students who may wish to contribute to this process. It will focus in particular on the need for greater diversity, including gender diversity, among experts and practitioners in this field. All students, regardless of their level of knowledge of nonproliferation, disarmament, or arms control, are welcome to attend. Questions are strongly encouraged!

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to students, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/kxX4X

Sarah Bidgood is the director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California. She also leads the Center’s Young Women in Nonproliferation Initiative. Much of her work focuses on identifying opportunities to revive US-Russia nonproliferation cooperation and arms control today. She is the co-editor of Once and Future Partners: The United States, Russia, and Nuclear Nonproliferation, which was published in 2018.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at is-michigan@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 22 Sep 2021 09:54:14 -0400 2021-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Program in International and Comparative Studies Livestream / Virtual Sarah Bidgood, Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, California
The Trichloroethylene Metabolite S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine Suppresses Inflammatory Pathways in a Macrophage Cell Model: Implications for Immunosuppression During Pregnancy (October 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88558 88558-21655081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

https://umich.zoom.us/s/95313929320

The goal of the environmental research seminar/webinar is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for sharing and critiquing research proposals and preliminary study results.

Dr. Harris is a Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Dr. Harris earned his PhD in environmental toxicology from the University of Washington, where he conducted his dissertation research in male reproductive toxicology. As part of his research he helped to develop an in vitro testis cell culture model for studying male reproductive toxicants. He now studies female reproductive toxicology, using a combination of approaches including primary tissue culture models, transcriptomics and metabolomics to investigate molecular mechanisms of toxicant effects on the placenta and fetal membranes. His research aims to advance our understanding of how environmental toxicants contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes.

https://umich.zoom.us/s/95313929320

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:02:57 -0400 2021-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Sean Harris Oct 26 Environmental Research Webinar
CoderSpaces - virtual office hours - Tuesdays - 2-3:30 (October 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86227 86227-21632234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Are you grappling with a piece of code, trying to compute on a University cluster, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.

All members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces, Tuesdays – Thursdays, during the Fall 2021 term to get research support and connect with others.

The virtual sessions are designed to assist faculty, staff, and students with research methodology, statistics, data science applications, and computational programming for research.

Our hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise. They come to you from a variety of departments and disciplines and are looking forward to serving the U-M community in their research endeavors.

CoderSpaces provide a casual, productive and inclusive environment. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.

Join via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/99832397131)
*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.

with Alexander Gaenko (CSCAR), Armand Burks (ARC/UMSI), Liz Hanley (PDHP/ISR), Paul Schulz (PDHP/ISR)

Expertise: Automation of tasks and workflows, bash, C/C++, CMake, data mining and visualization, Fortran, front-end HTML/CSS/JavaScript stack for custom web applications, git, GNU Make, GPUs, High performance computing, inter-lingual software interoperability, Java, Julia, machine learning, natural language processing, parallelization, performance analysis, Perl, Python, R, SAS, shell, secure computing enclaves, SQL, Stata, statistical methods (hypothesis testing, data analysis, modeling, sampling), web scraping

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Meeting Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:39:16 -0400 2021-10-26T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Meeting CoderSpaces, virtual, drop-in office hours, will give you hands-on help from experts all across campus. All are welcome.
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, PhD-Variations In Biology Seminar Series (October 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87459 87459-21642270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design alongside The Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology departments and the Cell and Molecular Biology CMB/Genetics Training Programs are proud to present:

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, PhD
Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer
Stowers Institute

Faculty Host(s):
Carole Parent, PhD, CMB Faculty Coordinator
Trainee Host(s):
Hannah Bell, Wesley Huang, Ansley Semack, and Yi-Ju Lulu Tseng

For more information/questions email:
Laura Buttitta, PhD buttitta@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:44:46 -0400 2021-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Workshop / Seminar Variations In Biology
Designing Effective Presentations (October 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87092 87092-21638692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

This online workshop is designed to help U-M Chemical Engineering and Chemistry students at all levels prepare presentations that will engage their audience and ensure better audience comprehension.

Learn visual design strategies, effective techniques for Zoom presentations, and a few lesser-known features that will make it easier to build a useful and consistent presentation.

This event is hosted by NOBCChE at the University of Michigan and is open to all U-M students.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:14:32 -0400 2021-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Chemical Engineering Livestream / Virtual U-M Chemical Engineering logo and text that reads "Designing Effective Presentations"
TBA (October 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86895 86895-21637179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Chemistry


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Other Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:15:22 -0400 2021-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Chemistry Other
Variations In Biology Seminar Series: Understanding the sources of regenerative capacity in animals (October 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87667 87667-21644957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design alongside The Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology departments and the Cell and Molecular Biology CMB/Genetics Training Program are proud to present Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:44:10 -0400 2021-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado photo
Home Rule Contemporary: Experimental Art and Self-Determination in Kalaallit Nunaat (October 26, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86063 86063-21631256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

Home Rule Contemporary: Experimental Art and Self-Determination in Kalaallit Nunaat



With the Home Rule Act of 1979, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) achieved an unprecedented level of political autonomy. Curiously, in the midst of this long-awaited confrontation with Danish colonial rule, the generation of artists whose careers began under expanded sovereignty shied away from political and cultural imagery. But not all was as it appeared. As I will discuss, Kalaallit and Tunumiit artists applied their commitment to self-determination toward redefining the conceptual foundations of media like installation and video, inventing formal and technical language that facilitated the continuity of cultural knowledge, but which also challenged colonial inequalities that persisted during the Home Rule era. Extending questions raised by these projects, in this talk I will ask how art should respond when colonialism adopts more opaque forms of power, masking control over land and resources through the strategic recognition of cultural difference.

David W. Norman is a Forsyth Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on modern and contemporary art in Greenland and the circumpolar north. He is particularly interested in the politics of form and media, as well as the broader histories and geographies of Indigenous conceptual art. He earned his PhD from the University of Copenhagen in 2021.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:15:47 -0400 2021-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Livestream / Virtual flash talk - david norman
How to get involved in research as an undergraduate (and what to do if you can’t get a position this year) (October 26, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84329 84329-21623344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Getting involved in research is a great way to build your skills and get the “behind the scenes” look into the science that you later learn about in your textbooks and classes. If you’re thinking of going to graduate or medical school, ideally you want to be starting in a lab by your sophomore year and in most cases no later than your junior year. But how do you find and apply for a position? And what do you do if there’s a pandemic and no positions are available? We’ll go over tips for both these situations.

RSVP: https://myumi.ch/NxDK8

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:06:48 -0400 2021-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar STAR Scholars Program Fall seminar series
Dis­cus­sion with the Dean: The Future of the Creative Workforce (October 26, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88137 88137-21650701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for our next vir­tual Stamps @ Home Dis­cus­sion with the Dean: The Future of the Creative Workforce.
Continuing our successful Discussion with the Dean series, this installment will highlight the ways that hiring in the creative fields and industries have evolved and what trends we may start to see in the future. Dean Guna Nadara­jan will moderate a dis­cus­sion with a small panel of Stamps alumni who will share their professional journey and provide insights into the way that hiring practices have shifted both since they entered the workforce and again since the COVID-19 pandemic. The panel discussion will be followed by breakout sessions where participants will have the chance to engage directly with the panelists and ask questions.
Panelists include:



Angela Topacio-Didio, Co-founder and Managing Partner of GYRO CreativeAaron Wolk, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of BombasChristine Golus, Senior Managing Director at Q LTDCesar Velasquez, Head of Effects Animation at Walt Disney StudiosThis is an excit­ing event that brings together alumni across various creative fields and media to share their expertise. We look forward to seeing you there! Register for the event here.
Auto-generated closed captions will be available for this event. If you need additional accommodations, or have any other questions or concerns, please contact Alex Reeds (areeds@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Oct 2021 18:15:21 -0400 2021-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
ECRC First Year Seminar Series Session 1: Career Planning for First Year Students (October 26, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87992 87992-21648232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Calling all freshman College of Engineering students! The ECRC is hosting a two part workshop series specifically designed to help you begin developing your career plan. Join us for the first session, Career Planning for First-Year Students, on October 26th from 5-6pm to learn about recruiting timelines for engineering opportunities, skills employers are looking for, building up your resume, and the career resources available to you as a College of Engineering student. Be on the lookout for the second session in this series where you'll be able to ask the ECRC Career Peer Advisors your questions about finding internships, attending career fairs, writing resumes, etc.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/91912375919

Please let us know how we can ensure that this event is inclusive to you. What accommodations or access needs can we help facilitate? Email the ECRC at ecrc-info@umich.edu to let us know what accommodations you may need.

This is a College of Engineering Event.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:02:49 -0400 2021-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs
LRCCS 60th Anniversary Author Series | Reading *The Fortunes* (October 26, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86988 86988-21637991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Register HERE to receive your viewing link via Zoom:
https://myumi.ch/yKegj

The Center’s 60th anniversary programming will feature author Peter Ho Davies, Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, as he offers a reading from The Fortunes, a novel that recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational story through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this work captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood. Building fact into fiction, spinning fiction around fact, Davies uses each of these stories—three inspired by real historical characters—to examine the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:25:38 -0400 2021-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Peter Ho Davies, U-M Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature
Strategies to Improve Motivation (October 26, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87565 87565-21644082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

- Live virtual wellness group from 5:30 - 7:00pm
- Zoom link will be accessible in your registration confirmation email the day of the event
- The Campus Mind Works wellness groups are open to any U-M student who is interested in obtaining information about stress, depression, anxiety and related conditions, and/or is interested in learning positive coping strategies to help address these issues. The groups are designed for education and support purposes only and are not intended to be a substitute for medical or mental health treatment.
- These mental health education and support groups are a service of the U-M Depression Center, in partnership with the U-M Engineering’s C.A.R.E. Center and the Newnan Academic Advising Center and are run by staff affiliated with the U-M Department of Psychiatry.

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Well-being Mon, 27 Sep 2021 12:48:50 -0400 2021-10-26T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being cmw
CWPS Faculty Lecture | Melanie Manos (October 26, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87491 87491-21642779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Stamps School of Art & Design faculty member and current CWPS Faculty Fellow Melanie Manos discusses the process of creating a MOOC for her ongoing project, *Visualizing Women's Work*. *Visualizing Women’s Work (VWW)* is a research and community centered project examining gender bias in historic public monuments, utilizing multimedia responses that reveal the historically erased, devalued contributions of women across identities including: location-specific performances/actions, augmented reality and QR coding, data gathering and visualization, archival and crowd-sourced research.

University of Michigan community members can access the new online course for free, here: https://online.umich.edu/courses/visualizing-womens-work-using-art-media-for-social-justice/

Melanie Manos is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, print, sculpture and installation. Recent exhibitions include galleries and venues in Mechelen (Belgium), Los Angeles, London, Brooklyn, and Detroit. In 2013 Manos presented her work at Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Taliesin, WI, where she created and exhibited video and photographic collage ad-dressing the body and the built environment. Early 2014 Manos was an interdisciplinary Fellow at The MacDowell Art Colony, where she completed four video shorts sub-titled The MacDowell Series based on her response to the environs. Recent work also includes two large-scale outdoor video projections, for Dlectricity (Detroit), and The Not Yet, Site:Lab (Grand Rapids). Manos performed in and produced the videos, which were created using green-screen sets at the Duderstadt Video Studio. Manos’ performance art career began in 1990’s Los Angeles where she performed as a founding member of the duo Too Much Girl in venues as varied as public museums, private art schools, and punk rock clubs.

The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange. If you are a U-M community member interested in attending this event in person, please email cwps.information@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:03:26 -0400 2021-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T19:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Melanie Manos
From Here to There with Rose Stacey (October 26, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88241 88241-21651660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Before joining the Atomic Cartoons team as a Creative Development Executive, Rose Stacy served as Coordinator of Development at Nickelodeon Animation for 5 years. Throughout her time there, she helped develop a slate of 40+ television projects - including Star Trek, Rugrats, and SpongeBob. Prior to her time at Nickelodeon, Rose worked at NASA to develop and create video content for a variety of their social media platforms. Originally from Michigan, Rose earned her BA in Art from the University of Michigan. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her dog and partner, and she spends much of her free time painting oil portraits.
Stamps events are free and open to the public, and we are committed to making them accessible to all attendees. This event will be online using the Zoom platform with an auto-generated Live Transcript available. Please email John Luther jonel@umich.edu for any accommodations you may need for this event.
The brain­child of Stamps MFA Alumna Stephanie Brown Flem­ing, From Here to There is a series of inter­views with Stamps Alums talk­ing about how they got from col­lege to where they are now. These are the nuts and bolts about how they got their first job, how they moved across the coun­try, how they fig­ured out a lot of stuff that cur­rent stu­dents (and other alums!) need to know!
More From Here to There inter­views will take place through­out the Fall 2021 term — click here for the full lineup.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Oct 2021 18:15:22 -0400 2021-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Virtual Corporate Information Session with Serco, hosted by SWE (October 26, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88426 88426-21653872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Looking to be apart of one of WayUp's Top 100 Internship Programs? Come to our event to learn more about what we do here at Serco and learn how to get involved with our STEP summer accredited internship program and also join our Talent Community to stay connected with our Early Career opportunities.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/95057995917


-Majors Recruited: Bachelors Aerospace Engineering, Bachelors Civil Engineering, Bachelors Computer Engineering, Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Data Science, Bachelors Electrical Engineering, Bachelors Mechanical Engineering, Bachelors Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
-Positions available: Full-time,Internship
-Is the company willing to sponsor students for work authorization?: No - Sponsorship not available

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:02:38 -0400 2021-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs
Community Matters Cohort Program Drop-Ins (October 26, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87016 87016-21638133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Come to our Community Matters Drop In session any time on Tuesdays 8 - 9 PM for a chance to do virtually anything while building relationships with your peers! We'll play virtual games together, focus on wellness and meditation, have a Q&A/advice session from University of Michigan upper-division students, watch a movie/TV show, or just accompany each other while doing homework. We’d love for you to join our community and ask us any questions you may have!

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:46:04 -0400 2021-10-26T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location First Year Experience Programs Social / Informal Gathering CMCP Drop-Ins
University of Michigan Book Arts Symposium (October 27, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88346 88346-21653423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

For each of two evening sessions, four presenters — book arts educators, students, and/or community members — each have 15 minutes to share about a project they are working on or a facet of their book-arts-related work that they are passionate about. We'll have about 30 minutes after the presentations for Q&A or discussion. Please register and we'll send you more information along with a Zoom link: https://myumi.ch/YybyM

Presenters on Tuesday, October 26th include Lee Marchalonis, Fritz Swanson, Toby Millman, and Jim Horton. Presenters on Wednesday, October 27th include Ingrid Ankerson, Endi Poskovic, Gabe Brower, and Emily Legleitner.

Read more about the presenters and their talks: https://myumi.ch/er5rn

We hope you can join us for this first University of Michigan Book Arts Symposium, which was developed to build community, promote a sense of unity, and cultivate an atmosphere of collaboration and connection across the multiple manifestations of the book arts programs and educational initiatives on the U-M Ann Arbor campus and related Washtenaw County communities.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:57:53 -0400 2021-10-27T07:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Conference / Symposium Collage of artists' books
Become a UROP Research Mentor (October 27, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 83879-21619571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

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Other Tue, 11 May 2021 12:45:19 -0400 2021-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Submit a Research Project
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 27, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Application Open (October 27, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87903 87903-21647503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Gain exposure to non-profits, research and Detroit in Summer 2022.

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

https://myumi.ch/erK95

Priority Deadline: December 3rd (5pm)
Final Application Deadline: January 31st 2022 (5pm)

Info Session offered Wednesdays at Noon weekly
From October 27 - December 8, January 5 - January 12
Register for an info session at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:17:43 -0500 2021-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
LSA Transfer Information Session (October 27, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86784 86784-21635969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Join the LSA Student Recruitment Team for our weekly virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements, transfer credit, pre-transfer academic advising, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits. Each session includes a Q & A featuring the Transfer Student Ambassadors. For any questions about this session, please email us at LSATransferCenter@umich.edu.

To register go to https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtcOGhrz4vGtAjypCF5ylN52nllVIewkl5

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:52:31 -0400 2021-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar Transfer Center
Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew? A Case in Jewish Diversity in the Second Temple Period (October 27, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87463 87463-21642276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Conference Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini; Lisa Bowens; Emma Wasserman; Loren Stuckenbruck

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Paul of Tarsus was born, lived and died a Jew. Raised as a Pharisee, he then joined the early Jesus movement, a first-century Jewish apocalyptic and messianic group. Paul became one of the most vocal leaders of the new movement and promoted its expansion among the gentiles. The conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, aims to move Pauline research to a further stage, beyond reclaiming Paul to Second Temple Judaism and proving that “he was not Lutheran.” By taking Paul’s Jewishness as a shared starting point, the conference explores the figure of Paul within Second Temple Judaism in a line of continuity with the Jewish apocalyptic tradition (and the Enochic tradition in particular), not as an apostate of Judaism but as part of the vibrant Jewish diversity of the time.

The conference will not be aimed at a general audience, but will instead bring together a group of selected specialists. It will be a workshop with discussion sessions introduced by oral presentations by specialists, more than a series of papers. The goal is to gather all major specialists working in the field and have plenty of time for discussion.

For more information, contact the conference secretary, Joshua Scott (scottjos@umich.edu).

Register for this virtual event here: https://tinyurl.com/p6kr29j5

Participation is limited to members of academia. As this meeting is closed to the general public, the registration process is not automatic; please be patient if there is a delay in the receipt of your registration.



Schedule
** This schedule is based on Eastern Daylight Time/New York time **

MONDAY Oct 25, 2021:

9am-11am — Opening session: Paul & Apocalypticism (chair Gabriele Boccaccini)

John J. Collins & Emma Wasserman (panelists), Daniele Minisini & Hwankyu Kim (shorter contributions)

11:30am-1:30pm — Session One: “The Origin of Evil, the Devil, and the Triumph of God on Evil Forces”

Lisa Bowens, Matthew Goff, Kelly J. Murphy (panelists)

Discussants : Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jamie Davies, David Burnett, Alexei Sivertsev, Mark Leuchter …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Two: ” Paul’s Apocalyptic Messianism “

Loren Stuckenbruck, L. Ann Jervis, Alexandra Brown, James Waddell (panelists)

Discussants : Deborah Forger, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Anne Kreps, David Burnett, Benjamin Reynolds, Dereck Daschke, Joshua Scott, Clint Burnett, Ron Herms …

TUESDAY, Oct 26, 2021:

9:00am-11:00am — Session Three: Paul and the Torah in an Apocalyptic Perspective

Matthew Novenson, Mark Kinzer , Joshua Garroway (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Yael Fisch, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Dereck Daschke, Jason Staples, David Rudolph …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Four: “Justification, Forgiveness, Judgment, and Salvation”

Magnus Zetterholm, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jamie Davies (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Jason Staples, Frantisek Abel …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Five: “No longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: Gender, ethnicity and social status in apocalyptic perspective”

Joseph Angel, Laura Dingeldein, J. Thomas Hewitt (panelists)

Discussants : Thomas Kazen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Jeremiah Coogan, Anders Runesson, Jim Scott, Ron Herms …

WEDNESDAY, Oct 27, 2021

9:00am-11:00am — Session Six: “Paul’s ‘Conversion’ within Judaism: an Apocalyptic Jew and a (Former?) Pharisee”

Gerbern Oegema, Mark Nanos, James Maston (panelists)

Discussants: Yael Fisch, Deborah Forger, Alexei Sivertsev …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Seven: “Paul within Paganism (Paula Fredriksen, chair)”

Jennifer Eyl, Stephen Young, Matthew Sharp, Matthew Thiessen (panelists)

Discussants : Stanley Stowers & Paula Fredriksen (respondents); Alexander Chantziantoniou, Anne Kreps, David Rudolph …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Wrap-up session: what’s next?


Participants:

Frantisek Abel, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Joseph Angel, Yeshiva University, USA
Daniel Atkins, PhD studies, University of Manchester, England
Lynne Bahr, Rockhurst University, USA
Lori Baron, Saint Louis University, USA
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edwards University, USA
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Daniel Boyarin, University of California Berkeley, USA
Lisa M. Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alexandra Brown, Washington & Lee University, USA
Clint Burnett, Johnson University, USA
David Burnett, PhD studies, Marquette University, USA
Rodney Caruthers, Gustavus College, USA
Alexander Chantziantoniou, PhD studies, University of Cambridge, England
Carsten Claussen, Elstal Theological Seminary, Germany
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Ryan Collman, PhD studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Jeremiah Coogan, University of Oxford, England
J. Andrew Cowan, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Dereck Daschke, Truman State University, USA
Jamie P. Davies, Trinity College, Bristol, England
Gail Dawson, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Genevive Dibley, Rockford University, USA
Laura Dingeldein, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada
Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Potsdam, Germany
Yael Fisch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, University of Gloucestershire, England
Deborah Forger, Dartmouth College, USA
Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michele Freyhauf, PhD studies, Durham University, England
Joshua D. Garroway, Hebrew Union College, USA
Emily Gathergood, PhD Studies, University of Nottingham, England
Matthew Goff, Florida State University, USA
Matthias Henze, Rice University, USA
Ron Herms, Fresno Pacific University, USA
J. Thomas Hewitt, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
L. Ann Jervis, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden
Hwankyu Kim, PhD studies, Rice University
Mark S. Kinzer, rabbi and author, USA
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Anne Kreps, University of Oregon, USA
Brent Landau, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Mark Leuchter, Temple University, USA
Grant Macaskill, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Jason Maston, Houston Baptist University, USA
Daniele Minisini, PhD studies, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Kelly J. Murphy, Central Michigan University, USA
Natalie Mylonas, Macquaire University, Australia
Mark Nanos, University of Kansas, USA
Jared Neusch, PhD studies, King’s College London, England
Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Gerbern Oegema, McGill University, Canada
Markus Oehler, University of Vienna, Austria
Isaac Oliver, Bradley University, USA
B.J. Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Benjamin Reynolds, Tyndale University, Canada
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
David Rudolph, The King’s University, USA
Anders Runesson, University of Oslo, Norway
Joshua Scott, PhD studies, University of Michigan, USA
Joel Sienkiewicz, PhD studies, Westminster Theological Seminary
Alexei Sivertsev, DePaul University, USA
Jason Staples, North Carolina State University, USA
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany
Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University, Canada
Ana Travessos Valdez, University of Lisbon, Portugal
James Waddell, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA
Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield, England
Emma Wasserman, Rutgers University, USA
Jim West, Trinity Western University, Canada
Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity, Australia
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan, USA
Magnus Zettelholm, Lund University, Sweden
Philip Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:48:34 -0400 2021-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Apocalyptic Paul
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 27, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-27T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
CCPS Lecture. The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85889 85889-21629517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In *The Carpathians*, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the Carpathian mountain system were discovered for a broader regional public from about 1870 to 1980. This is a story of how the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians, and Bieszczady Mountains went from being terra incognita to becoming the popular tourist destinations they are today. It is a story of the encounter of Polish and Ukrainian lowlanders with the wild, sublime highlands and with the indigenous highlanders—Górale, Hutsuls, Boikos, and Lemkos—and how these peoples were incorporated into a national narrative as the territories were transformed into a native/national landscape.

Although the Carpathians, essentially a continuation of the Alps, are Central and Eastern Europe's most prominent physical feature, politically they are peripheral. *The Carpathians* is the first book to deal with the northern slopes more broadly, showing how these discoveries had a direct impact on the various nation-building, state-building, and modernization projects. Dabrowski's history incorporates a unique blend of environmental history, borderlands studies, and the history of tourism and leisure.

Patrice M. Dabrowski has taught and worked at Harvard, Brown, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Vienna. She is currently an associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA), and editor of H-Poland. Dabrowski is the author of three books: *Poland: The First Thousand Years* (2014), *Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland* (2004), and *The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine* (2021). In 2014 she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/qgozW

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:54:30 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion The Carpathians book cover
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Crisis Standards of Care for Children and Pregnant People (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88371 88371-21653522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM)

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought scarce resource allocation and crisis standards of care to the forefront of national consciousness, in which “the goal is to ‘gracefully degrade’ services to the minimum degree needed to meet the demands, maintaining the maximum patient and provider safety”. In this session, a panel of speakers who care for children and pregnant patients will push the boundaries of our contemporary understanding of crisis standards of care by exploring the concept outside of the adult care setting.
Cosponsored by The Dept. of Pediatrics

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:17:00 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Lecture / Discussion The Panel
Detroit Community Engaged Research Program Info Sessions (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87920 87920-21647694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Learn more about the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program summer fellowship in Detroit.

Applications are now open.

Info sessions will be held on Wednesdays at NOON on:
- October 27th
- November 3rd
- November 10th
- November 17th
- December 1st
- December 8th
- January 5th
- January 12th

Register at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:46:14 -0500 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Impact of response styles on inclusive measurement (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86252 86252-21640716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Impact of response styles on inclusive measurement
Wednesday, October 27, noon to 1:10pm ET via Zoom

Speakers:
Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton
(PhD Candidate, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan)

Sunghee Lee
(Research Associate Professor, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan)

Rachel Davis
(Associate Professor, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina)

Abstracts:

Negated and Polar Opposite Items for Balanced Scale construction: An Empirical Cross-Cultural Assessment

Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton

Acquiescent Response Style (ARS) is a culturally patterned measurement error in surveys that threatens comparisons across groups with different cultural backgrounds potentially undermining inclusivity estimating attitudes and beliefs in a population. Balanced scales blend items written in different directions and are hypothesized as a method for controlling ARS. This study examined the differences in measurement properties between two types of balanced scales. The first balanced scale type included negated items, which were item reversals formed by inserting a negation, such as, “no” and “not.” The second type included polar opposite items, which used antonyms or opposite terms to reverse the item direction (e.g., “unhappy” as the opposite of “satisfied”). Participants were recruited to a Web survey and randomly assigned to (1) unbalanced, (2) negated balanced or (3) polar opposite balanced scales. Participants came from three groups with different ARS tendencies to contrast the effects of scale wording in mitigating ARS across groups and improving measurement across cultural subgroups. These groups were: Non-Hispanic White respondents, Hispanic respondents in Mexico and Hispanic respondents in the US. Both types of balanced scales outperformed unbalanced scales in convergent validity, with higher correlations between scale scores and validation variables for balanced than unbalanced scales. No statistical differences were observed between negated and polar opposite scales in fit indices of factor models, reliability measures or convergent validity for any group. These findings suggest that negated and polar opposite balanced scales are equivalent for ARS control, and that they yield adequate measurement properties for all groups included in the study.

Response Style and Measurement of Satisfaction with Life

Sunghee Lee

Satisfaction with Life (SWL), a five-item scale, is designed to assess global judgment about one’s satisfaction with life as a whole rather than specific domains of life. Popularly used by many organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it has been translated into over 30 languages. However, with its standard version using a 7-point Likert response scale, it is subject to measurement error due to response style and measurement non-comparability across groups associated with systematically different response styles. More importantly, whether and how this is addressed in research may have implications for its inclusivity. This study examines the utility of balancing the SWL scale experimentally with multiple racial/ethnic/linguistic groups in the US: Latinx dominant in English, Latinx dominant in Spanish, non- Latinx Whites, non-Latinx Blacks, non-Latinx Koreans dominant in English and non-Latinx Koreans dominant in Korean. The results suggest the benefit of balancing measurement scales but not for groups that engage in middle response style.

Reducing Acquiescent Response Style with Conversational Interviewing

Rachel Davis

Acquiescent response style (ARS), the tendency for survey respondents to select positive answers such as “Strongly Agree,” is of particular concern for increasing measurement error in surveys with populations who are more likely to acquiesce, such as U.S. Latinx respondents. This study enrolled 891 Latinx telephone survey respondents in an experiment to address two questions: (1) Does administering a questionnaire using conversational interviewing (CI) yield less ARS than standardized interviewing (SI)? (2) Do item-specific (IS) response scales reduce ARS when compared to disagree/agree (DA) response formats? No difference was observed in ARS between the DA and IS response scales. However, CI yielded significantly lower ARS than SI, likely due to the CI interviewers' efforts to clarify questions and help with response mapping. Findings from this study suggest that using CI to administer survey questions may decrease use of ARS and improve data quality among survey respondents who are more likely to engage in ARS.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:06:36 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Politics and Policy (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87822 87822-21647042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Speaker: Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
Join via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91429736051

Interdisciplinary Workshops on Politics and Policy are regular seminars hosted by the Center for Political Studies. Speakers present current research on a wide range of topics. See the full schedule of talks at https://cps.isr.umich.edu/events/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:24:50 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Dark blue background with text "Interdisciplinary Workshops on Politics and Policy" and Center for Political Studies logo.
North Campus Mindfulness Meditation Drop-In (Online) (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40967 40967-21631275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. This is a guided mindfulness meditation drop-in session. No experience necessary. Free and open to all.

Email dmitryb@umich.edu to sign up for the mailing list. You will receive a weekly reminder with the zoom link. Also, you can add the sessions to your Google Calendar: https://tinyurl.com/y3kbkwd6

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Well-being Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:16:48 -0500 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being Mindfulness meditation
Online Yoga with Catherine Matuza (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88611 88611-21656193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

register at https://myumi.ch/VPYnE

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:15:14 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Online Yoga with Catherine Matuza
Social Brown Bag: Motivated Reasoning and the Conjunction Fallacy (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86054 86054-21631245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

How does one’s motivation to reach a desired conclusion influence whether or not they make illogical probability judgements? In this talk, I consider the conjunction fallacy as a test case for motivated reasoning, or the process of evaluating information in a way that coheres with prior attitudes and beliefs. In 3 studies, participants with prior motivations (e.g., fans of a sports team) made judgments about the likelihood of future events. People committed the conjunction fallacy consistent with a desirability bias: scenarios that included a desirable outcome were judged as more likely to happen when compared to less desirable scenarios, even if logically incoherent.

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Presentation Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:19:44 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Clint McKenna
Virtual Off-Campus Housing Fair (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87492 87492-21642778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Beyond the Diag

The fall housing fair events offer students a great opportunity to learn more about off-campus housing options in and around Ann Arbor. Students can meet with housing providers, hear about special offers and giveaways, and also learn more about various programs that provide support and resources to students who live off-campus. We are offering this virtual event, to give an opportunity for students who aren't currently located in Ann Arbor to find out more about off-campus housing.

To sign up, please complete this form - https://forms.gle/71FwYEX224wxNETb6

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Fair / Festival Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:57:27 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Beyond the Diag Fair / Festival Housing Fair
VIRTUAL | CEW+Inspire Midweek Mindfulness-Guided Sit (October 27, 2021 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85277 85277-21626157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds mindful meditation sits virtually on Wednesdays at 12:15.

RSVP here to receive the Zoom link: https://myumi.ch/r8zv7

Mindfulness Meditation is a skill that can be learned and when practiced has the power to enhance a sense of wellbeing, focus, and interconnectedness. As we all continue to navigate uncertainty and challenges that are inherent in the act of being human, we benefit from and are grateful for diverse cultures and traditions across the globe. Collectively they have passed on a wide variety of contemplative practices that encourage reflection, silence, and centering into the present moment to help us cope and better respond. Engaging in contemplative practices support the individual, by cultivating a sense of awareness and well-being, and benefit society by enhancing one’s capacity to create connection and community, and to become an agent of positive social change. There are many forms of contemplative practices, including meditation. Mindfulness meditation is one form aimed to help focus our awareness on the present moment as it unfolds, moment to moment, without judgment. Research on mindfulness continues to find a wide range of benefits. In short, Mindfulness may be viewed as cognitive training that bolsters our ability to handle stress, poor mood, and threat. It also increases our capacity to focus our attention on what is most important to us and to be more compassionate to ourselves and to others.

On Wednesdays from 12:15 - 12:45 pm, we come together in community to practice this skill in an open and supportive virtual space. Whether you are new to mindfulness meditation or are an experienced practitioner each session is designed to offer guidance and support to assist you. Join this supportive community and experience the gift of present moment awareness.

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Well-being Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:24:47 -0400 2021-10-27T12:15:00-04:00 2021-10-27T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Well-being Snowy winter trees
Finding Available Data Related to Sensitive Topics (October 27, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86731 86731-21635825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Please join us for this webinar to learn about a new digital resource available from ICPSR. This electronic resource will help researchers identify openly available datasets that closely cover topics of restricted-use datasets but do not require IRB approval or a restricted data use agreements.

There are many topics that graduate students and faculty give up on pursuing because they can only find restricted-use datasets. It can be difficult to access restricted-use datasets in a timely fashion.

This resource is a kind of "quick guide" to help researchers pursue the topics they’re interested in, including tricky topics like crime or health. ICPSR has hundreds of datasets that are related to topics that normally have restricted data.

This will benefit researchers who have been frustrated or unsuccessful with the restricted data process but still want to find *some* secondary data that would work with their research interests.

Presented by Brianne Dosch, ICPSR Representative at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

This webinar is free and open to the public. A live transcript will be available. This webinar will be recorded, and the recording and slides will be sent to all registrants. Zoom FAQs are available at http://myumi.ch/kx2oo.

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Presentation Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:51:17 -0400 2021-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A child uses binoculars in a green field of tall grass in a promotional image for "Finding Available Data Related to Sensitive Topics," a webinar from ICPSR
Let’s Brainstorm In-Person Programs: Successful Visitors on Campus (October 27, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87187 87187-21639349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

Join us on October 27th from 1:00 to 2:30 PM (EST) for "Let's Brainstorm In-Person Programs: Successful Visitors on Campus," a virtual session hosted by the University Outreach Council (UOC). This cross-campus discussion will focus on hosting in-person events for our K-12 youth and pre-college programs. Campus experts will also share resources and best practices for hosting in-person events for minors. Email umich-ceo@umich.edu for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 22 Sep 2021 09:46:56 -0400 2021-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Educational Outreach Livestream / Virtual Event graphic with date and time
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Do We Speak COVID-19? Language and Translation in the Era of Global Crises (October 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87022 87022-21638143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibit."

Please register to attend at https://myumi.ch/r8MB9.

About the Presentation:
COVID-19 pandemic’s effects have been witnessed everywhere including language. New lexical items and sociolinguistic changes have been created in the wake of this global crisis. Some speakers have used several linguistic devices, such as neologisms or collocations, for dealing with COVID-19 through using affixation, compounding, blending, clipping, acronyms, and abbreviation. Other speakers adopted euphemistic and dysphemistic techniques to express what they intend to say and to reflect what they appreciate or depreciate. In addition, presidents and politicians referred to strong language and war metaphors in their daily speeches to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as to shape their fellow countrymen’s thoughts and view.

The effects of COVID-19 pandemic have been also found in the area of Translation Studies (TS). The pandemic produced an enormous amount of COVID-19 health information which urgently needs to be translated into different languages. Thus, translators play an influential role in the global response against COVID-19 by rendering and disseminating reliable information in a language the general public can understand. In response to this critical situation, translators have used modern translation technologies and online resources, but they have faced different financial and occupational challenges.

About the Speaker:
Sameer Naser Olimat is an assistant professor of translation and linguistics in the English Department, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan. He received his PhD in Translation Studies and Computational Linguists from the University of Leeds, UK, in 2019. He is interested in the areas of English-Arabic and Arabic-English translation, Qur'an translation, crisis translation, computational linguistics, and sociolinguistic. He is the founder of Leeds Corpus of Euphemisms in the Qur’an http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/euphemismolimat/. He participated in national and international peer-reviewed conferences. He published several articles in peer-reviewed and specialized journals.

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*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact Kristin Waterbury at waterbuk@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:06:56 -0400 2021-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion CMENAS Colloquium Series 2021
Innovation in Tracking and Collecting Migrant Data (October 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85330 85330-21626242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 4: Innovation in Tracking and Collecting Migrant Data
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Dirgha Ghimire

This webinar will provide an overview of CVFS design for tracking migrants and innovation in collecting migrant data along with empirical findings investigating consequences of international migration. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcu-trzsjGdW33jgiYGmw1_x0dEER9CZO

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:15:26 -0400 2021-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (October 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86135 86135-21631717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday and Wednesday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Oct 2021 18:16:50 -0400 2021-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Cycling Safety: From Crash Data Analysis to a Naturalistic Cycling Study (October 27, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88208 88208-21651370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The safety issues of cycling have become an increasing concern. This presentation, led by Drs. Shan Bao and Fred Feng, describes two unique studies related to cycling safety, from crash data analysis to a recent naturalistic cycling study in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Crash Report Sampling System data was used in this study to identify significant factors that impact cyclists’ crash injury levels. In the naturalistic cycling study, a fleet of four electric bikes was instrumented with cameras and GPS and was given to study participants as a substitute for their own bicycle. A total of over 5,000 miles of riding data from 77 subjects were collected over two years. The dataset could be used for studying the interactions between motorists and cyclists on real-world roadways.

More about this research: https://myumi.ch/jxl0N

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About the speakers:
Dr. Bao is an Associate Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, University of Michigan-Dearborn, with a joint appointment as Associate Research Scientist in the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute’s Human Factors Group. She is also an affiliated faculty member with UM Civil and Environmental Engineering department, MIDAS and UM Robotics Institute. Dr. Bao received her Ph.D. in mechanical and industrial engineering from the University of Iowa in 2009. Her research interests focus on human factors issues related to connected and automated vehicle technologies, ADAS system evaluation, and big data analysis. She has served as the PI or co-PI of 54 research projects. She has published 72 technical publications, including 40 refereed journals articles. Shan is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and has served as the chair of the Surface Transportation Technical Group of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is a also member of the TRB Vehicle User Characteristics committee and the TRB Human Factors in Road Vehicle Automation subcommittee.

Dr. Fred Feng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is also an affiliate faculty of Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). Dr. Feng's research focuses on advancing the safety of environmentally sustainable, healthy, and equitable modes of transportation, such as cycling, walking, and public transit, through the development of data-driven insights, strategies & tactics, and technologies. To this end, we use a variety of quantitative methodologies including behavioral data analysis, statistical learning, computational human performance modeling, and human factors. Dr. Feng earned his B.E. (2006) and M.S. (2009) at Tsinghua University in China, and his PhD (2015) in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before joining UM-Dearborn, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Dr. Feng serves on the Scientific Committee of the International Cycling Safety Conference and on the Board of directors of Washtenaw Bicycling and Walking Coalition.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:51:04 -0400 2021-10-27T14:30:00-04:00 2021-10-27T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Decorative Image for the CCAT Research Review with Drs. Shan Bao and Fred Feng. It features the presentation title 'Cycling Safety: From Crash Data Analysis to a Naturalistic Cycling Study' and an image of a person riding in a bicycle lane.
America's place in the post-Afghanistan world (October 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87908 87908-21647591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

For bios and viewing details visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2021/americas-place-post-afghanistan-world

What are the implications of the U.S. retreat from Afghanistan? Does it mark the "end of the American era?" What can the world community do for the thousands of Afghan refugees across the globe? How will the Taliban government treat women and Afghans who worked with Western organizations? Amid the continuing uncertainty, journalists Robin Wright and Jawad Sukhanyar will give their perspectives on the evolving situation, in conversation with Lynette Clemetson, Director of Wallace House.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:41:36 -0400 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Robin Wright, Jawad Sukhanyar
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (October 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88276 88276-21652019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Molecular classification has transformed the diagnosis and treatment of diffuse gliomas, creating targets for precision therapies. However, timely and efficient access to molecular diagnostic methods remains difficult, causing a significant barrier to deliver molecularly-targeted therapies. We aim to develop an innovative point-of-care diagnostic screening method that provides rapid and accurate molecular classification of diffuse gliomas through artificial intelligence and optical imaging in order to improve the comprehensive care of brain tumor patients.

Bio:
Dr. Todd Hollon is a neurosurgeon and research scientist who specializes in brain tumors. He is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery. He completed his postdoctoral training in the UM Translational Molecular Imaging Laboratory under the supervision of Drs. Daniel Orringer and Honglak Lee. His postdoctoral work focused on the application of deep neural networks to advanced imaging methods to improve the speed and accuracy of intraoperative brain tumor diagnosis. He hopes to be part of the next generation of young scientists that uses computation and machine learning to make scientific breakthroughs.

Host: Josh Welch, PhD

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

In-Person: Forum Hall, Palmer Commons

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:26:31 -0400 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Environmental Career Chat (October 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86853 86853-21636926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

Environmental Career Chats are informal networking opportunities for U-M students to connect with environmental professionals about their career journeys. October’s virtual Environmental Career Chat is focused on Conservation Science & Management and Environmental Mapping & Technology with Kaitie Benedek, Forestry Technician.

Kaitie graduated from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources in 2017 with a degree in Program in the Environment, concentration in Restoration Ecology, and minor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Post graduation, she spent a summer in Wyoming working for the Bureau of Land Management, and then a year in Texas with the Army Corps of Engineers before moving to Oregon for my current job as a Forestry Technician with the Bureau of Land Management. She is passionate about restoration, environmental justice, and advocacy and spends her free time hiking in the Cascades and talking to people about trees.

To attend this event, please RSVP via this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmqOdCYLpri8o2ajdoCpQIir2Vr4mM4FeQPMzG6a4RfRcCtA/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Presentation Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:38:22 -0400 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Program in the Environment (PitE) Presentation
Hub Workshop: Grad School Personal Statement (October 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85105 85105-21625578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Personal Statements allow schools to get an insight into your experiences and passions as they relate to the graduate program you are pursuing. Join Hub coaches for an hour-long session dedicated to providing the tools to assist you in crafting a compelling personal statement. You’ll also have individual work time to make progress on any edits to your personal statement. Feel free to bring a copy of your statement (if you have one), an outline you are drafting, or just the writing prompt you are working through.

-A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
-Needing to unpack the graduate school personal statement and develop strategies to showcase your personal, professional, and academic experiences
-Not sure where to start, stuck on a section, or just looking to evaluate what you have so far
-Working towards a Masters Degree or PhD programs, however pre-professional students (medical, law, etc.) are still welcome to attend.


What you’ll gain by attending:
-Get advice on how to write an effective personal statement
-Brainstorm an approach to writing your personal statement or identify areas of improvement within your existing personal statement
-Identify next steps for brainstorming and writing a personal statement that best represents you


Interaction level: Moderate

RSVP now to reserve your spot! The link to join this workshop will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Anna Colvin at ancolvin@umich.edu so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Oct 2021 14:59:43 -0400 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: (October 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87931 87931-21647720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract: We develop a new dataset to study asset specificity among non-financial firms. The data covers the liquidation values of all major types of assets across industries. For the determinants of asset specificity, we show that assets’ physical attributes (e.g., mobility, durability, and customization) play a crucial role; macroeconomic and industry conditions have the most impact when assets are not custom designed. We then investigate three implications of asset specificity. First, consistent with theories of investment irreversibility, high asset specificity is associated with less disinvestment, stronger investment response to uncertainty, and greater sensitivity of capital formation across countries to macroeconomic volatility. Second, the increasing prevalence of intangible assets has not significantly reduced firms’ liquidation values, but intangibles appear more scalable. Third, firms have more vertical integration in countries with weaker rule of law when asset specificity is high.

To join the seminar, please contact econ.events@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:34:08 -0400 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Nursing Graduate Application Information Session (October 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84830 84830-21625101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

Join the Recruiting & Admissions team at the U-M School of Nursing for a virtual Graduate Application Information Session. These information sessions are designed to familiarize you with the programs offered at the School of Nursing as well as guide you through the admissions process, you can register at https://umforms.tfaforms.net/218020

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:02:47 -0400 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Livestream / Virtual Nursing Lobby
STEM Research Career Award (October 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87133 87133-21639078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

Register here: https://myumi.ch/O4eKQ

The U-M STEM Research Career Award supports highly qualified students who plan to pursue a PhD and research career in a STEM field.

The scholarship provides $5000 for summer research or other academic expenses. The scholarship does not require US citizenship; it is open to students from all nationalities and backgrounds. The U-M STEM Research Career Award application and letters of recommendation will also be used to select U-M’s nominees for the Goldwater and Astronaut Scholarships from among eligible applicants.

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/stem-biomedical/u-m-stem-research-career-award.html

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:30:18 -0400 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual Chemical engineers develop clean energy storage solutions
Haunted Michigan (October 27, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88251 88251-21651845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Find a spot around the virtual campfire and listen as paranormal expert Tim Woolworth shares some of his most spooktacular stories from his experience as a Michigan-based ghost hunter. Time has over twenty years of experience in paranormal studies and is internationally known for his work with instrumental trans-communications.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/91209645686

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:36:09 -0400 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual Haunted Michigan
Ace Week Programming (October 27, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88419 88419-21653863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
Ace Week Programs
October 24th - 30th
All events will be held virtually

Ace/Aro Centerspace Discussion
When: Monday, October 25th from 7:30-8:30 pm
Join the asexual and aromantic centerspace for a multi-faceted discussion about asexuality and how it affects our experiences and identity. Please note that this event is only for members of the ace/aro spectrum and questioning individuals. We will be discussing asexuality and what the community means to us, navigating relationships, and intersectionality when it comes to the ace community. Come to discuss these topics or to learn from others!

Aces in Academia Student Panel
When: Wednesday, October 27th at 6 pm
This year we're having a brand new event where asexual students will be discussing their experiences and answering questions. This event is open to anyone, allies and asexuals! Submit questions via the chat, learn about the experiences of other students, support the asexual UMich community, and learn how to be an ally to aces!

Putting the Ace in Sex Ed
When: Friday, October 29th from 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Most sexual education is not ace-friendly, much less ace-focused, and we're going to take a stab at fixing that! This interactive workshop will focus on defining terms like consent, desire, and arousal, communication in relationships, setting boundaries, and being proud of your identity! You will be invited to reflect on how you experience your sexuality and have the opportunity to learn from asexual and ace-spectrum experiences. his event is open to anyone, allies and asexuals!

Ace/Aro Centerspace Social Event
When: Saturday, October 30th at 1 pm
Wrap up Ace Week by hanging out with your fellow asexual and aromantics! We'll be playing games and bonding and in general having a relaxing and fun time! Please note that this event is only for members of the ace/aro spectrum and questioning individuals.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Other Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:07:24 -0400 2021-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Other All four Ace Week event titles and dates with a word or two about the kind of event it is. The graphic has the same black, white, purple, and grey color scheme as the asexual pride flag.
Global Health Career Panel (October 27, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87321 87321-21641054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

Global health offers a range of career possibilities, from academia, to the non-profit, governmental, and for-profit sectors. Come hear about some career opportunities and learn how to better prepare for the global health careers of the future.

Part of International Career Pathways

Hosted by the School of Nursing and the School of Public Health

REGISTER to receive a Zoom link: https://forms.gle/SH54EvXVyfaWNX1v6

Panelists:

Julie Buser, PhD
Senior Research Specialist
U-M Center for International Reproductive Health Training
https://cirht.med.umich.edu/

Robert J. Greathouse
Regional Public Health Advisor
Pacific Island Health Officers Association (PIHOA)
https://www.pihoa.org

Julie Mann, CNM
Associate Director of Midwifery
Seed Global Health
https://seedglobalhealth.org/

Shannon Prudhomme
Senior Manager, Global Health Partnerships
Project HOPE
https://www.projecthope.org

Eric Ramirez-Ferrero, PhD, MPH, MSc
Senior Technical Director, MNCH/FP/RH
MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience
https://usaidmomentum.org

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:30:14 -0400 2021-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T20:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Careers / Jobs Global Health Career Panel Speaker Bios
Mix of Corporate Information Session / Tech Talk with Caterpillar (Cat Digital Division), hosted by SWE (October 27, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88425 88425-21653869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Cat Digital: At Cat Digital, our purpose is to deliver industry-leading digital solutions in support of profitable growth for Caterpillar, dealers and our end customers. The scope of the work we do includes:
- Driving the overall digital roadmap on behalf of Caterpillar
- Executing an end-to-end connectivity strategy to gain efficiencies, improve availability and generate cost savings
- Protect, store and generate value from data through an integrated digital platform, data solutioning and advanced analytics
- Designing and delivering a consistent digital customer experience via a well-adopted and rationalized applications portfolio and a streamlined and robust online/e-commerce ecosystem

Caterpillar: For over 95 years, our products and services have helped improve the lives of people around the world. Our customers use our products to build the basic infrastructure that enables higher standards of living so that people have access to water, electricity, roads, bridges, hospitals, schools and so much more. Our company strategy reflects our legacy and our continuing commitment to meet the needs of our customers and the communities in which we live and work. United by our Values, Caterpillar employees around the world share a focused view of our business through the Operating & Execution Model, through which we are making strategic choices today to create profitable growth for tomorrow. Together, with our partners, we are providing the solutions that help our customers build a better world.


https://umich.zoom.us/j/91566376745


-Majors Recruited: All Majors
-Positions available: Full-time,Internship
-Is the company willing to sponsor?: Yes - All positions

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:36:31 -0400 2021-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs
15th Annual Prechter Lecture (October 27, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87036 87036-21638190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program

1.5 Continuing Education Credits for Social Workers are available

Virtual via zoom

Featured talk by Norman J. Ornstein - including stories of his family's journey with bipolar disorder

Panel discussion about the present & future of mental health policy

Q & A

Featured Speaker: Norman J. Ornstein

Panel Moderator: Melvin G. McInnis, M.D., FRCPsych

Panelists:

Brad - Prechter Program Participant

Polly Gipson, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor

Amy Kilbourne, Ph.D., MPH, Associate Chair for Research
Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Director: Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Faculty, U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI)

Julia Kyle, LMSW, MBA, Director: Behavioral Health Strategy and Planning, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Michigan and Blue Care Network

Marianne Udow-Phillips, MHSA, Lecturer: Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, Senior Advisor: Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, Principal of Mu Consulting, Senior Advisor to the Center for Health and Research Transformation at the University of Michigan

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:39:03 -0400 2021-10-27T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program Livestream / Virtual Prechter Lecture image
Meet the Author: Conquering Heroines (October 27, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87858 87858-21647164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Join us to learn about the group of Ann Arbor women who banded together in the 1970s to force the University of Michigan to treat women the same as men. "Conquering Heroines" author Sara Fitzgerald drew on oral histories and new interviews with living participants to chronicle this pivotal moment in the history of the women's movement and the University of Michigan. There will be a Q&A for attendees. One Zoom attendee will be awarded a free copy of the ebook!

About the Author:
Sara Fitzgerald is a former editor and new-media developer for the Washington Post and was the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Daily. She is the author of Elly Peterson: “Mother” of the Moderates (University of Michigan Press, 2012) and The Poet’s Girl (Thought Catalog Books, 2020). www.sarafitzgerald.com

"Conquering Heroines" is on sale for $15 and free shipping during the month of October. Just visit https://www.press.umich.edu/11513692/conquering_heroines and use the discount code "UMGL15HERO" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:32:28 -0400 2021-10-27T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of Conquering Heroines over photo of the Commission on Women, CC-BY Regents of the University of Michigan, courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library
In Search of China's Soul ~ WebinART | Architecture with Chinese Characteristics: How the Past is Driving New Ideas for China's Future Cities (October 27, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86987 86987-21637990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Join top architects and urban thinkers for a wide-ranging discussion on China’s cities of the future. For decades, China’s planners focused on tearing down the old, and building the new in order to fuel the nation’s rapid development. Glistening cities rose, while psychological and social costs took a back seat. Today, as China struts more confidently on the world stage, its architects are reaching back to Chinese tradition to reinvent urban planning—and redefine what it means to be modern. Speakers include LRCCS Associate Director Lan Deng, Professor of Urban Planning, Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Shuishan Yu, Associate Professor of Architecture and Affiliate Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University; Wang Hui, Principal Architect and Co-founder of URBANUS Architecture & Design Inc.; and Xu Lei, Chief Architect and Director of the Yihe Architectural Design and Research Center of the China Architecture Design and Research Institute.

Please register in advance here: https://www.chinainstitute.org/event/architecture-with-chinese-characteristics-how-the-past-is-driving-new-ideas-for-chinas-future-cities/

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:49:00 -0400 2021-10-27T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-27T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual In Search of China's Soul ~ WebinART | Architecture with Chinese Characteristics: How the Past is Driving New Ideas for China's Future Cities
Become a UROP Research Mentor (October 28, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 83879-21619572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

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Other Tue, 11 May 2021 12:45:19 -0400 2021-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Submit a Research Project
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 28, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Application Open (October 28, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87903 87903-21647504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Gain exposure to non-profits, research and Detroit in Summer 2022.

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

https://myumi.ch/erK95

Priority Deadline: December 3rd (5pm)
Final Application Deadline: January 31st 2022 (5pm)

Info Session offered Wednesdays at Noon weekly
From October 27 - December 8, January 5 - January 12
Register for an info session at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:17:43 -0500 2021-10-28T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Introduction to Survey Sampling (October 28, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87433 87433-21642132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Survey Sampling
Course Date: Oct. 28-Nov. 18, 2021
Days: Th (9:00am-12:30pm)

Registration requires at, https://si.isr.umich.edu/

This is a foundation course in sample survey methods and principles. The instructors will present, in a non-technical manner, basic sampling techniques such as simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratification, and cluster sampling. The instructors will provide opportunities to implement sampling techniques in a series of exercises that accompany each topic.

Participants should not expect to obtain sufficient background in this course to master survey sampling. They can expect to become familiar with basic techniques well enough to converse with sampling statisticians more easily about sample design.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:26:57 -0400 2021-10-28T09:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction course flyer
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 28, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-28T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminar | Discrete Descriptions of Mechanical Metamaterials: from Spin Glass to Spin Ice (October 28, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86562 86562-21634899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Zoom link:
https://tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/91341585214?pwd=ZUU4K2FaN0tQbE11N3ZOZEpzbHJLdz09

Metamaterials are artificial structures made of arrays of multiple building blocks of mesoscopic length scales. For many mechanical metamaterials, the possible geometric states of each building block may be linked to discrete spin states of a magnetic system. I will show how designing the building blocks and their mutual spatial arrangement in a metamaterial enables much flexibility in setting the interactions in the corresponding spin system. This control of the frustration and the topological features of the spin system leads to novel functionalities such as response to predefined mechanical textures, spatial steering of stress and deformation fields, and multiple coexisting steady states.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:16:12 -0400 2021-10-28T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Self-Compassion Meditation Series (October 28, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87730 87730-21645496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Develop skills for self-compassion and self-care through this six-week meditation series offered through a new partnership between Ithaca College and the University of Michigan’s Wellness Initiative!

Weekly topics:
7 October - Affectionate Breathing
14 October - Gentle Movement
21 October - Self-Compassion Break
28 October - Compassionate Body Scan
4 November - Motivating Self-Compassion Break
11 November - Lovingkindness

Open to all - registration required https://myumi.ch/gj79j

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 18:15:13 -0400 2021-10-28T12:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Self-Compassion Meditation Series
Hub Small Group: Finding an Internship in Business (October 28, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85106 85106-21625579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join an Internship Program Coordinator for an advice-laden discussion on securing a highly-prized business internship. Together, we’ll explore strategies for searching for internship opportunities as well as ways to position yourself for success in applications. The small group setting will allow plenty of time for discussion—so bring your questions!

You should attend this workshop if you are:
An undergraduate liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
Seeking a business-oriented internship

What you’ll gain by attending:
Learn how to effectively search for business internships
Find out what types of academic, personal, and professional work experiences add value to your applications
Explore alternative ways to gain exposure to careers within business

High Interaction
Video and audio presence is strongly encouraged
The event will mainly be interactive through some combination of full-group interactions, small-group interactions, worksheets, and Q&As.

RSVP now as spots are limited. The link to join the small group will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Anna Colvin at ancolvin@umich.edu so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:01:12 -0400 2021-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T13:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Internship in Business
FLAS Info Session (October 28, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87747 87747-21645519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

-Tuition support and Stipend for the study of Foreign Languages & Area Studies (FLAS)

-Grads, undergrads, and PhD students eligible

-All colleges, schools, and programs at University of Michigan Ann Arbor

The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship provides tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. The U.S. Department of Education (US/ED) funds these awards under the provisions of Title VI of the Higher Education Act. The amount of funding and number of awards are contingent upon annual US/ED program approval, federal regulations, as well as continued congressional funding, all of which may change from year to year.

Info session dates and Zoom links:

Tuesday, October 19th at 4:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96948409890

Thursday, October 28th at 2:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96222006390

Wednesday, November 3rd at 3:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91653226353

Friday, November 12th at 2:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96892473766

Tuesday, November 16th at 4:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97230068076

Thursday, December 2nd at 4:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99585268164

Monday, December 6th at 1:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95605010844

Wednesday, December 15th at 12:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99964753441

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:42:42 -0400 2021-10-28T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual FLAS Info Session
MMP Working Group Speaker: Wade Munroe (October 28, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88600 88600-21656099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Wade Munroe (University of Michigan) will give a talk for the Mind and Moral Psychology Working Group. He will present "What It Takes to Make a Word (Token)."

ABSTRACT
Consider the following object, where, depending on how you are viewing this abstract, the object is likely a portion of a matrix of pixels through or from which light is emitted,

auge

Let’s call the object ‘Shape’. Is Shape a word token? If so, what word type is it a token of? Given how words are traditionally individuated (at least lexicographically), the Spanish, “auge”—meaning, apogee or peak—the French, “auge”—meaning, basin or bowl—and the German, “auge”—meaning, eye—are different words. They are chance false friends. The words have different etymologies, meanings, and canonical pronunciations and, thereby, are distinct word types, despite (by chance) being orthographically identical. So, if Shape is a word token (which we’ve yet to establish), is it a token of the Spanish, “auge”, the French, “auge”, the German, “auge”, or some combination of the three? Additionally, what grounds an answer to the previous question? Generalizing beyond Shape and matrices of pixels as a potential medium for word tokens,

(Central Question) When does something, f—e.g., some utterance, inscription, manual gesture, etc.—constitute a token of a word type, w, as opposed to some other word type, w*, or no word at all?

In this talk, I argue against a popular intentionalist answer to Central Question according to which (roughly put) something, f, constitutes a token of a word type, w, when one generates f with the intention to generate a token w (or a suitably similar intention). Given that word tokens are artifacts, the intentionalist answer to Central Question is indicative of a broader and widely held assumption in the literature on the metaphysics of artifacts, namely, that artifacts are intention-dependent—something, f, is an artifact of type, t, only if f was produced with the intention to produce an artifact of type t (Juvshik 2021). As I demonstrate, intention has little to no role to play in an answer to Central Question or, more broadly, an account of artifacts. I argue that our (tacit) knowledge of how to perform various complex actions, like generating word tokens through speech, is not something that must be intentionally accessed, reasoned with, and utilized in governing behavior in some fully top-down intentional manner. We can exhibit a host of complex and context sensitive behavior that constitutes an exercise of our competence with/knowledge of how to act within an environment without intention playing an initiating, guiding, or sustaining role.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:23:35 -0400 2021-10-28T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Wade Munroe (UofM)
NOTE TIME CHANGE - EEB Virtual Thursday Seminar: Sensing in the dark (October 28, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85683 85683-21628194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE TO 2PM.

Despite their nocturnal habits, bats occupy virtually all terrestrial niches on Earth. Yet the molecular adaptations underlying this ecological diversity remain underexplored. Working with an international team for the better part of a decade, we have used amplicons, transcriptomes, hybrid probes, and more recently genomes to relate foraging and feeding ecology to sensory genes and pathways. We have found numerous, parallel instances of pseudogenization in vision and chemosensory genes, matching diversity of diet and olfactory receptors, the conservation of functional vomeronasal receptors since the K-T boundary in some lineages, and rampant preadaptation to divergent diets in sensory pathways. Our findings have upended the model of adaptation in response to ecological opportunities in the form of new diets, suggesting instead that shifts in foraging underlie much of the diversity we see today.

Image credit: Rossiter Lab

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:07:50 -0400 2021-10-28T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Davalos bat image
The Politics of University Student Voting (October 28, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86030 86030-21631136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

The 2020 election saw record-breaking turnout, and college and university students were no exception. In this session, Nancy Thomas, director of Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, will discuss findings from the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE), as well as the conflicting forces at play in 2020—pandemic-driven social distancing, a backlash against President Trump, a national reckoning over racial injustice, defiance around voter access, new efforts by institutional leaders and faculty, and effective student organizing—and what it all means for democratic learning across disciplines, healthy political campus climates, and planning for the 2022 election and beyond.

Zoom – Registration Required:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f5XhPfX4RdOCsvvEUD3MBw

Opening Event Speakers:

Nancy Thomas, Director, Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University

Vincent Hutchings (discussant), Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Hanes Walton, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research; University of Michigan

Dave Waterhouse (discussant), Interim Co-Director, The Edward Ginsberg Center, University of Michigan

Susan Jekielek (moderator), Associate Research Scientist, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan

In 2021-22 the College and Beyond II Public Colloquium Series will explore the links between liberal education and its outcomes, with a particular focus on democratic engagement. This fall, researchers and leaders of projects focused on better understanding and increasing civic and political engagement will discuss ongoing efforts and new initiatives. In winter 2022, seminars will feature research on the enduring impact of liberal education conducted with the College and Beyond II dataset, which contains rich data about students’ experiences in and beyond college and will open to researchers in June 2022.

Visit the College and Beyond II: Outcomes of a Liberal Arts Education Colloquium Series website for more information on this and all upcoming events: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/liberalarts

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:46:57 -0400 2021-10-28T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Workshop / Seminar
Econometrics: (October 28, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87974 87974-21648124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

*To join the seminar, please contact: econometrics-seminar-requests@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:37:31 -0400 2021-10-28T14:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
A Conversation on Critical Race Theory: Its Meaning, Controversies, and Influence (October 28, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87646 87646-21644659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

October 28, 3:00 to 4:00 PM (EST)

Join us on October 28 from 3:00 to 4:00 PM (EST) for our Faculty Forum, "A Conversation on Critical Race Theory: Its Meaning, Controversies, and Influence."

This event will be a timely conversation with outstanding scholars:
- Dr. Angela Valenzuela, Professor, Department of Educational Policy and Planning Program and Director of the Center for Education Policy, University of Texas - Austin
- Dr. Camille Wilson, Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, School of Education, and Founding Director, CREATE Center, University of Michigan
- Dr. Mike Spencer, Presidential Term Professor in Social Work, and Director of Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Oceanic Affairs, University of Washington

RSVP: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtf-uspjgjGd0zK7tDS8XjalA1X9yCYpGS

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:35:19 -0400 2021-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Educational Outreach Livestream / Virtual Event flyer with panelist photos
How to be an Ally Abroad (October 28, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86634 86634-21635244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Oftentimes, our experiences are completely different from our peers. The reality is that we all carry different identities and they all come with their own unique privileges and barriers. Navigating those identities abroad can be very different from what we may be used to in our own communities. This is why allyship can be very powerful when traveling with peers. So how can you support your peers abroad if they are discriminated against or left out of group activities? How can you identify this is happening in the first place? This brief will discuss ways in which you can serve as an ally while studying abroad with peers of various socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and religious backgrounds to name a few. RSVP @ https://myumi.ch/88rvK

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Sep 2021 15:12:05 -0400 2021-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T15:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Ally
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (October 28, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-21637416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:01:55 -0500 2021-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Other Research Office Hours
On the Peripheries of the Subaltern: Privilege, Marginalization, and Intersectional Identities (October 28, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85392 85392-21626354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Grounded in theoretical frameworks of “otherness,” such as Spivak’s “subaltern” and Canagarajah’s “periphery,” this workshop will explore the intersection of multiple identities which are simultaneously held by every individual.
After participants engage in an exploration of these intersectional identities, they will then analyze how biases—like colorism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and xenophobia—can still be internalized within communities which are also marginalized.
Learning objectives:

Explore the construction of the self
Trace the intellectual genealogy of “otherness”
Understand intersectionality, multiple peripheries, and accumulated (dis-)advantage
Examine internalized forms of oppression

This workshop is designed for master’s students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/QAd8e.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:15:31 -0400 2021-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Office of the Vice President for Research Staff Awards (October 28, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88101 88101-21650294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Office of Research

Rebecca Cunningham, Vice President for Research, cordially invites you to attend the 2021 Research Staff Recognition Awards Program to celebrate the outstanding service provided by U-M research staff, and to honor this year's recipients.

Office of Research Exceptional Service Award:
April Pepperdine, Office of Vice President for Research, Conflict of Interest Program

Research Administrator Recognition Award:
Becky O'Brien, School of Information

Research Technical Staff Recognition Award:
David Paris, Medical School
Caleb Smith, Medical School

More information on the awards available here: https://research.umich.edu/research-u-m/office-research/recognition-awards/research-staff-awards

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:53:27 -0400 2021-10-28T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Office of Research Livestream / Virtual Research Staff Award Recipients
“Disparities in Reproductive Aging & Midlife Health between Black & White Women” and “Taking Action to Advance the Study of Race & Ethnicity” (October 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87494 87494-21642885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Please register for more information and Zoom link.
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JiZPRVJaStK7yNbArsSubA

The webinar, hosted by the Center for Midlife Science, features papers that will appear in a special series for the journal, Women's Midlife Health.

Talk #1 “Disparities in Reproductive Aging and Midlife Health between Black and White Women: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)” with Tené T. Lewis, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University; and Siobán D. Harlow, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan.

Talk #2: “Taking Action to Advance the Study of Race and Ethnicity: The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)” with Shawna Follis, PhD, MS (Dept. of Medicine, Stanford Univ. School of Medicine); Monik C. Jiménez, ScD, SM, FAHA, (Harvard Medical School and T.H. Chan School of Public Health); and Lorena Garcia, MPH, DrPH, (Division of Epidemiology, Dept. of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis School of Medicine).

Moderators: Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School; and Gloria Bachmann, MD, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Sponsored by the journal, Women’s Midlife Health; Center for Midlife Science at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health; Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine Diversity and Inclusion Board. SWAN is funded by the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Nursing Research and the Office of Research on Women's Health. WHI is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:04:41 -0400 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Lecture / Discussion Webinar Series on Structural Racism and Midlife Health
“The role of muscle activity in structure-function relationships of embryonic tendon development” (October 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88592 88592-21656086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

BME 500 Seminar Series
Thursday, October 28, 2021
4:00 – 5:00 pm

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97723483179

Spencer Szczesny, Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University

“The role of muscle activity in structure-function relationships of embryonic tendon development”

Abstract:

While there is significant interest in using tissue engineering techniques to create tendon and ligament replacements, no engineered biomaterial has been successful in replicating their physiological function. This is because there is a fundamental lack of understanding of how to produce a robust tensile load-bearing biological tissue. Previous work suggests that tendon maturation is driven by rapid increases in collagen fibril length and molecular crosslinking mediated by mechanical stimulation due to muscle activity. However, the effect of mechanical stimulation on the tensile mechanics of developing tendons and the functional significance of the structural changes that occur during development are still unclear. To address this knowledge gap, we investigated the multiscale structure-function relationships of embryonic tendons during normal development and following the loss of mechanical stimulation via immobilization. Using multiscale mechanical testing, we found that the strain transmitted to the collagen fibrils in tendons at embryonic days 16, 18, and 20 is less than the strain applied to the tissue, suggesting the collagen fibrils remain discontinuous throughout embryonic development. However, the ratio of the fibril strains to the tissue strains increased with developmental age; this indicates that more strain is being transmitted to the fibrils and that there is less interfibrillar sliding, which is consistent with an increase in the average fibril length and an increase in the macroscale mechanics during this period of development. Additionally, there was a decrease in the macroscale tensile modulus and the fibril:tissue strain ratio with flaccid (but not rigid) immobilization, suggesting that complete loss of mechanical stimulation inhibits fibril elongation and strain transmission to the collagen fibrils, resulting in impaired functional maturation. Consistent with these mechanical assessments, we found that collagen fibril bundling was impaired with immobilization. Interestingly, while the enthalpy required to denature the tendons increased with increasing age, there was no effect with immobilization. This suggests that although intermolecular crosslinks in embryonic tendons increase with development, the loss of tensile mechanical properties with immobilization is potentially not due to a reduction in functional crosslinking. Together, these data suggest that the key structural change induced by mechanical stimulation during tendon development is an increase in the strain transmitted to the collagen fibrils, which is consistent with fibril elongation. These data provide fundamental insight into the mechanisms driving tendon development and will guide the design of improved techniques for engineering tendon/ligament replacements.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:25:42 -0400 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion U-M BME Event
GISC Beyond The Films Series. Halaloween Roundtable: Muslim Horror in the 21st Century (October 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88062 88062-21649063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Join us on Thursday, October 28, from 4-6 PM ET as we wrap up *Halaloween* with a panel discussion on Muslim horror, the use (and misuse) of Islam and the Quran in the horror genre, feminist politics in horror, and how each region differs in its creation of horror films.

This panel will feature experts and scholars: Karla Mallette, Kristian Petersen, Sena Duran, Alireza Doostdar, and Alicia Izharuddin.

The panelists will offer some insight on Muslim horror, the Islamic theological and mythological figure of the jinn, women, gender, and sexuality in Muslim horror films, and a scholarly approach to understanding horror and genre films in the Muslim world.

Karla Mallette is professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Middle East Studies and professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. She is the author of *The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History* (2005), *European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean* (2010), *Lives of the Great Languages: Latin and Arabic in the Medieval Mediterranean* (2021). She co-edited *A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History* (2013) and has also written numerous articles on medieval literature and Mediterranean Studies. She is a former director of the Global Islamic Studies Center and currently chair of the Department of Middle East Studies at U-M.

Kristian Petersen has written about Muslim American celebrity activism, female filmmakers, the rise of the Muslim sitcom, Hollywood depictions of Iraqis, and “Muslim cinema.” He is the editor of *Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology* (ILEX Foundation & Harvard University Press, 2021) and *New Approaches to Islam in Film* (Routledge, 2021).

Sena Duran is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her work considers historical and contemporary depictions of Middle Eastern Muslims in film, with specific attention to body genre films and affective responses among audiences. Her dissertation project currently identifies the genre and industry of adult film as central to the study of racial, sexual, gendered, and national discourses in U.S. visual media productions of Middle Eastern Muslims.

Alireza Doostdar is an associate professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of *The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny* (Princeton University Press, 2018) and is currently writing a book about the theology of Satan after the Islamic Revolution.

Alicia Izharuddin is currently a fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands where she is finishing her book on the print culture of romance in Malaysia and the formation of affective counterpublics.

This event is free and open to everyone. RSVP here: http://bit.ly/halaltalks.

This event is a part of *Halaloween*: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit http://ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center, and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Humanities Institute, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the African Studies Center, the Center for South Asian Studies, the Center for Arab American Studies (UM-Dearborn), the Arab American National Museum, and Shudder.


*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:36:57 -0400 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Halaloween Roundtable: Muslim Horror in the 21st Century
Connections Accelerator (October 28, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88363 88363-21653513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Thriving Accelerator Series
: Connections Accelerator

About the Thriving Accelerator Series:
The Thriving Accelerator Series, created from the research excellence of Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, will help students build thriving lives, teams, and organizations. Students will engage with Ross thought leaders and with world-renowned tools, created by Ross faculty, to deepen their self-awareness and ability to resource others.

About the Connections Accelerator:
This is an invitation to be inspired by the power of human connections. While we are living in trying times that put stress on our ability to be with one another, these times also highlight that human connections are essential for our well being and effectiveness. This 90-minute workshop will give you a foundation for new ways of seeing, understanding, and acting to build connections with others, even in remote work and online gatherings. You’ll leave with a new appreciation of how to design remote work and online gatherings to tap into wellsprings of capability, strength, and resilience. You’ll take away a customized plan that is designed to support high quality connections in your next remote session, as well as a design guide that will help you navigate the landscape of connections more effectively in these times.

Instructors:
Your guides on this journey through the landscape of connection are two passionate teachers who are deeply connected to this topic.

- Jane Dutton, Co-Founder and Core Faculty, Center for Positive Organizations and Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Emerita Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Michigan

- Monica Worline, Faculty Director of Engaged Learning and Innovation and Core Faculty, Center for Positive Organizations; Lecturer, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; and Research Scientist, Center for Compassion and Altruism, Stanford University

Open to all University of Michigan Students

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Oct 2021 13:57:15 -0400 2021-10-28T16:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Connections Accelerator
Goethe Institut Language Courses Information Session (October 28, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88634 88634-21656247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This information session focuses on spring/summer language courses at the Goethe Institut. You will learn about the structure of the program, transfer of credits, and financial assistance through the German Department.

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Presentation Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:58:05 -0400 2021-10-28T16:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Presentation
PCAP ZOOM Community Workshop (October 28, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88344 88344-21653262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The PCAP Zoom Community Workshop supports formerly incarcerated individuals through online creative arts engagement and connection with peers.

Weekly sessions include:
1) Artistic workshops
2) Presentations on the arts
3) Professional development
4) Collaborative interaction
5) And more!

All are welcome!
Sessions are free
No registration required

Questions? Contact:
pcap.zoom.workshop@umich.edu

The Creative Arts Workshops are part of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). PCAP offers programming year-round that brings the University of Michigan community and those impacted by the justice system into creative collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:58:35 -0400 2021-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual PCAP ZOOM Community Workshop
Slavic Colloquium — Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin (Slavic PhD students) (October 28, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88625 88625-21656213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Slouching Towards Sevastopol: Tolstoy and Writing the Crimean War
with Sara Ruiz and Valentin Rasputin and the place of Siberia in Russian cultural and political life with Michael Martin:

This presentation features Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin, Ph.D. students in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Sara will argue that Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Stories enact a performance of a war story that is purposefully contradictory and deeply ambivalent in regards to the societal function and meaning of an individual soldier’s wartime experience. Michael examines how Valentin Rasputin’s body of work is centrally concerned with the place of Siberia in Russian cultural and political life. While his later output paints a Russo-centric image of the region, his early works betray a much less stable notion of local belonging rooted in a personal, rather than cultural, connection. This colloquium is organized by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Kindly RSVP to receive the Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96120613090?pwd=RXN6K29QY3VqdDVld2F4ODdGMFY1Zz09.
Questions? Please contact Tricia Kalosa (triciak@umich.edu)
For more information, visit our website at https://lsa.umich.edu/slavic

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Presentation Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:30:17 -0400 2021-10-28T18:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation Colloquium with Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin
CJS Lecture Series | Judging Inequality: Japan in Comparative Perspective (October 28, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84107 84107-21620255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note the 7pm (in Ann Arbor) start time for this lecture.

When and how does economic inequality become salient to have a meaningful effect on political attitudes and behavior? What are the mechanisms? The presentation will explain how people define and judge economic inequality, which in turn shapes political outcomes such as redistributive preferences and democratic discontent, with a focus on Japan and other advanced democracies.

Yeonju Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study at Waseda University, Japan. She is also affiliated with the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion at Harvard University. Her research examines the nexus between capitalism and democracy with a focus on the political origins and consequences of economic development and inequality in comparative perspective. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School.

This event is cosponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Please register for this zoom workshop here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vm2q0a96RJiIjBz-21Ezgg

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Oct 2021 11:39:24 -0400 2021-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yeonju Lee, Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan
Pass the Mic (October 28, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86244 86244-21632225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

A virtual open mic for undergraduates from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses to share and celebrate their original prose and poetry.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:05:46 -0400 2021-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Microphone with purple background
Chris Jones & The Night Drivers (October 28, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86193 86193-21632075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information and policies before purchasing a ticket and again before attending a show. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave.*

Chris Jones & the Night Drivers make some of the most distinctively elegant yet driving bluegrass music heard anywhere today. Deeply rooted in tradition but never bound to it, they deliver original music with tight arrangements, emotional authenticity, and engaging humor. As actor and banjo player Steve Martin says, “Chris Jones’ voice is there with the great masters,” adding that the Night Drivers are “some of the best players in bluegrass.” Collectively, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers have won 16 IBMA awards. The band’s latest release, The Choosing Road, has proved to be enormously popular. The album’s refined dynamics and heartfelt original songs produced four number one hits, a band record. All five singles released from the album have landed at or near the top of the Bluegrass Today chart, which brings the band’s total count of number one songs to 13. “Bend in the Road” spent 20 weeks on the chart.

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Performance Thu, 02 Sep 2021 09:20:48 -0400 2021-10-28T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Chris Jones and The Night Drivers at The Ark!
Studio Moross (October 28, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86081 86081-21631378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Studio Moross is a creative design studio focusing on art direction, branding, print, and moving image set up by graphic artist and art director Aries Moross.
Aries Moross is a graphic designer, illustrator, and art director based in London, and is recognized for their typographic illustrations. Moross has been profiled in Dazed & Confused, Vice, and Creative Review, who selected them for a Creative Future award in 2007.
Aries Moross set up Studio Moross in 2012, fueled by their desire to build a multifaceted team and approach a broader scope of projects. This sense of collaboration runs strongly throughout the Studio today and specialist partners are often invited onto projects, providing additional expertise as needed.
Studio Moross’ skillset is extensive, with work that includes live show direction, broadcast design, and festival campaign direction. The team undeniably finds themselves at home working with music talent, with creative direction for artists such as Kylie, Disclosure, Sam Smith, The Blessed Madonna, and Jade Bird. Yet, the Studio is widely known for the color and energy they bring to every project, whether through branding, illustration or motion design. Previous clients include MTV, Spotify, VH1, Nike, Warner, and the BFI.
Based in Stockwell, South London, Studio Moross firmly believes in supporting the community in which it is situated. Over the years the Studio has continued to offer work experience to local schools and provides pro bono design services to South London based organizations like Art 4 Space and The Advocacy Academy.
How to Watch
This Penny Stamps Speaker Series event will premiere on October 28, 2021 at 8pm and can be viewed on this page, at dptv.org, or on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:15:10 -0400 2021-10-28T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion
Become a UROP Research Mentor (October 29, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 83879-21619573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

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Other Tue, 11 May 2021 12:45:19 -0400 2021-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Submit a Research Project
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 29, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Application Open (October 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87903 87903-21647505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Gain exposure to non-profits, research and Detroit in Summer 2022.

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

https://myumi.ch/erK95

Priority Deadline: December 3rd (5pm)
Final Application Deadline: January 31st 2022 (5pm)

Info Session offered Wednesdays at Noon weekly
From October 27 - December 8, January 5 - January 12
Register for an info session at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:17:43 -0500 2021-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Economic Theory: Random versus Directed Search for Scarce Resources (October 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88680 88680-21656601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper studies how different search protocols affect social welfare in a search market with scarcity. Agents search for objects that differ in quality either through a random or a directed search protocol. Random search protocol, in which agents are randomly paired to an object of any quality, gives rise to adversely selected markets. Directed search protocol, in which agents choose with which quality types to pair, gives rise to congestion. When utility is either non-transferable or transferable through Nash bargaining, I show that random search dominates directed search in terms of welfare, even though each agent would prefer to be able to direct her search.

To join the seminar, please contact at econ.theory-requests@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Nov 2021 13:40:27 -0400 2021-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T10:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
LingAMod Discussion Group (October 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87221 87221-21640540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The language across modalities discussion group provides a space for students, faculty, and community members to discuss research that spans the modes of human communication -- speech, sign, gesture, and more. Our group meets to discuss research articles and to informally present ongoing research. All meetings have captioning or ASL-English interpreting.

Please email Natasha Abner (nabner@umich.edu) for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:32:58 -0400 2021-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Smith Lecture: Human evolution in South Africa: carbonates, chronologies and decolonisation (October 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83657 83657-21452149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

South Africa has an extraordinary record of human evolution. Knowing how old sites are is a critical piece of the puzzle and my own work has focused on adapting the U-series chronometer to be applicable to a range of South African sites of varying ages. In the Cradle of Humankind, fossil bearing sediments are interbedded with speleothems. U-Pb dating of these flowstones provides the first direct chronology for this region, allows for different fossil beds to be correlated and suggests a palaeoenvironmental control over the nature of cave deposits. After a well over a decade of research, it is possible to interrogate this U-Pb speleothem database to access factors controlling age quality, ranging from diagenesis to initial Pb conditions. Human evolution research in South Africa has received international attention for nearly a century and is vast and broad in terms of research foci. However, the leading researchers have been almost entirely men, with women and people of colour under-represented, and black women largely absent. The Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has set out to disrupting, transform and decolonise this patriarchal narrative of human evolution in South Africa

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Aug 2021 08:39:48 -0400 2021-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Christina Knudson, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics, University of St. Thomas (October 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84422 84422-21623924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: Gelman and Rubin’s (Statist. Sci. 7 (1992) 457–472) convergence diagnostic is one of the most popular methods for terminating a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampler. Since the seminal paper, researchers have developed sophisticated methods for estimating variance of Monte Carlo averages. We show that these estimators find immediate use in the Gelman–Rubin statistic, a connection not previously established in the literature. We incorporate these estimators to upgrade both the univariate and multivariate Gelman–Rubin statistics, leading to improved stability in MCMC termination time. An immediate advantage is that our new Gelman–Rubin statistic can be calculated for a single chain. In addition, we establish a one-to-one relationship between the Gelman–Rubin statistic and effective sample size. Leveraging this relationship, we develop a principled termination criterion for the Gelman–Rubin statistic. Finally, we demonstrate the utility of our improved diagnostic via examples.


Christina Knudson is an assistant professor at the University of St. Thomas, an alumna of the University of Minnesota School of Statistics, and an organizer of the Twin Cities chapter of R Ladies. She researches likelihood-based inference for generalized linear mixed models and termination rules for Markov chain Monte Carlo. She is the creator and author of R packages glmm and stableGR.

https://cknudson.com/

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:45:06 -0400 2021-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Christina Knudson
At the Intersection of Time and Culture: Reflections on Researching Ancient Sculpture in the Present-day Louvre (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87769 87769-21645835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

The Louvre Museum is perhaps the most well-known museum in the entire world. To walk its halls and view its art is more than visiting a museum, it’s experiencing history itself. The museum came into existence as a fortress in the 12th century but was transformed into a private gallery for the royal collection in the 17th century, and then finally a public museum during the French Revolution. The collection was greatly expanded under Napoleon, and it was at this time that the Gabii sculptural assemblage entered the Louvre and became the cornerstone of the Roman sculpture collection.

In this talk, I discuss the ancient site of Gabii, the sculptures that once stood there, and their journey at the Louvre. I explore the relationship between present perceptions and ancient praxis, as well as the transformation of our knowledge and approach to ancient art that is still occurring today. By sharing my reflections during my time at the Louvre, I hope to invite others to consider how we all play a part in this transformation by viewing ancient art in the present, setting the stage for future change.

Presented via Zoom webinar - registration required https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C7JuvtX8RiOOPiRZy91G1Q

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Presentation Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:01:53 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Presentation Sculpture at the Louvre
Building the Sacred Valley: Landscape transformation during the Killke Period (ca. 1000–1400 CE) (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88362 88362-21653509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Over the course of Inka state expansion, consecutive Inka regimes carried out a series of construction and engineering projects in the Sacred Valley. By transforming the landscape, these projects aimed to materialize sovereign claims while ostensibly delegitimizing the legacies of the local non-Inka peoples that occupied this region. Contrary to ethnohistoric narratives that portray the Sacred Valley as wild and uncivilized prior to Inka intervention, regional archaeological research has begun to reveal how local groups actively adapted the environment to support their diverse lifeways, both before and during Inka occupation. In this paper, I will present the results of site survey and reconnaissance in the Sacred Valley, drawing on architecture, terrace systems, and tombs as evidence to reconstruct the shifting political landscape during the Killke Period, and evaluate the development of early Inka strategies of statecraft and territorial expansion.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:15:59 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Livestream / Virtual JE1
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85788 85788-21629001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an assistant professor of physics and a core faculty member for women’s studies at the University of New Hampshire. She will discuss her book, “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred,” which urges recognition of how science is rife with racism, sexism, and other dehumanizing systems and lays out a bold new approach to science and society.

The virtual conversation is free and open to the public, and U-M students can participate as part of a one-credit course, SWK 503 Section 001. This event is part of the annual Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions fall speaker series, which introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation, with the goal of encouraging the formation of a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Sep 2021 06:42:54 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Livestream / Virtual Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions 2021 speaker series
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Halaloween: An Online Muslim Horror Film Festival - On Demand between Oct 1-31 (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86902 86902-21637399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween! From Oct 1-31, GISC will be streaming Muslim horror films from across the globe for free. Films will each be available for one week in October, but available to pre-order anytime at: https://myumi.ch/wlkQ7.
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From Oct 29th to Nov 5th, stream the Indonesian horror film Impetigore on demand at watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the months Halaloween Horror selection!

2019 | 106 minutes | English | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar
Featuring: Tara Basro, Ario Bayu, Marissa Anita, Christine Hakim, Asmara Abigail

*Contains blood, gore and mature subject matter. Halaloween Horror Rating 5/5 - Gory, suspenseful female-centered folk horror set in a remote Indonesian village*

Down on her luck, Maya learns that she may inherit a house in her ancestral village. But when Maya returns to the village with her loyal best-friend, Dini, she’s unaware that the community has been trying to kill her to remove the curse that's plagued them for years. As she unravels the complicated truth of her past, Maya finds herself in a fight for her life. A SHUDDER ORIGINAL.

Join us the last week of October for a panel discussion on all things Halaloween.
Check our Facebook or Twitter for more information.
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The annual Halaloween: A Muslim Film Festival is presented by the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) at the University of Michigan.

What's Halaloween? In 2019 during the month of October, we launched the first ever Muslim Horror Film Festival: Halaloween. Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims with the hopes of understanding ‘What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?’. The previous Halaloween Festivals featured A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Dachra, Siccin 4 and more.

This year we are hosting the festival online and screening one film a week for the month of October. We're giving you the remote and allowing viewers to watch on their own time: each film will be available for a whole week. We're also inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most of the films, to those who love the gore - we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for a better sense on how scary each film will be.

The festival remains free, and will come to you wherever you are (though some films may not be available in certain countries). Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film. We'll wrap up the month of October with a live panel discussion on Muslim Horror, the use of Islam and the Quran, and how each region differs in its creation of horror films (sign up to our newsletter below to stay updated on this event, or check our social media).

The 2021 Halaloween Lineup:

October 1 - 122 | 2019 | Egypt
October 8 - KL24: Zombies | 2017 | Malaysia
October 15 - Kandisha | 2008 | Morocco
October 22 - Madayen | 2016 | Saudi Arabia
October 29 - Impetigore | 2019 | Indonesia

Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center, and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Humanities Institute, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the African Studies Center, the Center for South Asian Studies, the Center for Arab American Studies (UM-Dearborn), the Arab American National Museum, and Shudder.



Love Horror Films? Shudder streams the best in new independent and international horror, including Jayro Bustamante’s 2021 Peabody Award-winner La Llorona. Try Shudder free for 14 days with promo code HALALOWEEN when you sign up at Shudder.com.


Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay tuned on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
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Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Fri, 29 Oct 2021 09:41:35 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: An Online Muslim Horror Film Festival - On Demand between Oct 1-31
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Kirk Wolfe, MK Capital (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84446 84446-21625746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Kirk is a Partner at MK Capital, an established venture capital firm with offices in Chicago and Ann Arbor. Kirk focuses on software and cloud services sector investment opportunities. Prior to joining MK Capital, Kirk spent considerable time in management roles for leading technology companies, including Ariba, Motorola and Accenture.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:08:15 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Kirk Wolfe
Lunch and Learn: Procter & Gamble with Claudia Kohlman (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87875 87875-21647282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Learn all about what Procter &amp; Gamble (P&amp;G) is doing with design and how you might fit with them!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:15:28 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Penny W. Stamps School of Art &amp; Design
Special Physics Presentation | Journey into the World of Particle Physics and the Cosmos — and a Call for a More Just Practice of Science (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84413 84413-21623899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department Colloquia

This presentation will live stream on the U-M Poverty Solutions Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eaca6llnjhs

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's research focuses on theoretical work at the intersection of particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics. She is interested in scalar dark matter candidates such as axions and axion-like particles, as well as neutron stars and inflationary cosmology. She is a member of the LSST Dark Matter Group and the STROBE-X Science Working Group, where she leads Team STROBE-Ax. Before coming to the University of New Hampshire, she held a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship at Goddard Space Flight Center, a Martin Luther King Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physics at MIT, and was a research associate at the University of Washington.

In her book, "The Disordered Cosmos", Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter — all with a new spin informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek.

One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a Ph.D. from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly non-traditional, and grounded in Black feminist traditions.

Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, sexism, and other dehumanizing systems. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society that begins with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. The Disordered Cosmos dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.

This presentation is co-sponsored by the Poverty Solutions of the U-M and the U-M Department of Physics.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Jul 2021 15:20:30 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department Colloquia Livestream / Virtual Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's new book!
Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86703 86703-21635604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine (NYU Press, 2021), stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to “treat” gender identity today.

Drawing on interviews with medical providers as well as ethnographic and archival research, shuster examines how health professionals approach patients who seek gender-affirming care. From genital reconstructions to hormone injections, the practice of trans medicine charts new medical ground, compelling medical professionals to plan treatments without widescale clinical trials to back them up. Relying on cultural norms and gut instincts to inform their treatment plans, shuster shows how medical providers’ lack of clinical experience and scientific research undermines their ability to interact with patients, craft treatment plans, and make medical decisions. This situation defies how providers are trained to work with patients and creates uncertainty. As providers navigate the developing knowledge surrounding the medical care of trans folk, Trans Medicine offers a rare opportunity to understand how providers make decisions while facing challenges to their expertise and, in the process, have acquired authority not only over clinical outcomes, but over gender itself.

stef m. shuster is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. Their work on transgender healthcare has appeared in Gender & Society, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Social Science & Medicine.

Register: https://myumi.ch/88rbx

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:42:01 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual Trans Medicine
You Don’t Belong Here: The Stories Our Systems Tell (and Why We Have to Disrupt Them) (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85393 85393-21626355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Many universities message extensively around their commitments about diversity, equity, and inclusion. These institutional assertions are often called into question, though, by the stories of members of the higher education community who continue to face marginalization and othering within their professional and educational spaces. This session centers around an embodied case study depicting one woman’s reflections on her experiences of higher education and her interactions with a range of systems that sent a persistent message that she didn’t belong, that she would never truly be a part of her university community. Through session activities, participants will consider how these messages manifest and why they continue to occur despite the extensive labor of individuals sincerely committed to advancing equity.
Learning objectives:

Encourage participants to reflect upon and analyze messaging around DEI at universities.
Reflect on the nuances of university messaging that creates a sense of exclusion in underrepresented students.
Participants will consider how these messages manifest and why they continue to occur despite the extensive labor of individuals sincerely committed to advancing equity.

The theatrical portion of this session contains strong language. It includes explicit descriptions of racist and classist behaviors and the impact of systemic inequities on individuals and communities.
This workshop is part of the Rackham North Workshop Series although graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from all campuses are welcome to attend.
This workshop is designed for master’s students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/2D2eA.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:16:57 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Community-Engaged Course Design Series (October 29, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87102 87102-21638709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Are you interested in developing a new community-engaged course? Or perhaps you're looking for ways to add a community-engaged component to an existing course? Join the Ginsberg Center for this three-part series that will cover key principles for community-engaged course design. Over the sessions, Ginsberg's course design experts will share resources and best practices, and participants will have the opportunity to discuss and workshop their materials in real time.

• Oct 22nd: Part 1: Equity in Partnerships will discuss how to build equitable partnerships and consider foundations for anti-racist community engagement.

• Oct 29th: Part 2: Engaged Course Design and Project Management will discuss best practices for designing community-engaged syllabi and managing engaged projects.

• Nov 5th: Part 3: Assessment and Reflection will discuss how to incorporate effective reflection and assessment activities that benefit both students and community partners.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:40:53 -0400 2021-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Notebook open on table with desk plants
First Do No Harm: Understanding the ML/AI Behind Clinical Decision Alerts (October 29, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87783 87783-21645946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Precision Health

This is the second webinar in the Precision Health series "Demystifying the Data, Processes, and Tools that Are Changing Clinical Care."

Join us for an engaging introduction to machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) in health care. Learn the limitations of using electronic health records (EHR) and the distinctions between AI, data science, ML, and informatics. Understand the role of AI, ML, data science, and informatics, how they work together to create clinical decision alerts, and implications on practice. Learn how these models move from development to deployment.

This webinar is geared toward clinicians from all health disciplines, ML/AI health care researchers, and anyone else interested in learning more about how connecting ML/AI with health care is changing clinical care.

**Please use @umich.edu (NOT @med.umich.edu) email to register.**

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 01 Oct 2021 15:31:27 -0400 2021-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Precision Health Livestream / Virtual Oct. 2021 Precision Health webinar
Ace Week Programming (October 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88419 88419-21653864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
Ace Week Programs
October 24th - 30th
All events will be held virtually

Ace/Aro Centerspace Discussion
When: Monday, October 25th from 7:30-8:30 pm
Join the asexual and aromantic centerspace for a multi-faceted discussion about asexuality and how it affects our experiences and identity. Please note that this event is only for members of the ace/aro spectrum and questioning individuals. We will be discussing asexuality and what the community means to us, navigating relationships, and intersectionality when it comes to the ace community. Come to discuss these topics or to learn from others!

Aces in Academia Student Panel
When: Wednesday, October 27th at 6 pm
This year we're having a brand new event where asexual students will be discussing their experiences and answering questions. This event is open to anyone, allies and asexuals! Submit questions via the chat, learn about the experiences of other students, support the asexual UMich community, and learn how to be an ally to aces!

Putting the Ace in Sex Ed
When: Friday, October 29th from 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Most sexual education is not ace-friendly, much less ace-focused, and we're going to take a stab at fixing that! This interactive workshop will focus on defining terms like consent, desire, and arousal, communication in relationships, setting boundaries, and being proud of your identity! You will be invited to reflect on how you experience your sexuality and have the opportunity to learn from asexual and ace-spectrum experiences. his event is open to anyone, allies and asexuals!

Ace/Aro Centerspace Social Event
When: Saturday, October 30th at 1 pm
Wrap up Ace Week by hanging out with your fellow asexual and aromantics! We'll be playing games and bonding and in general having a relaxing and fun time! Please note that this event is only for members of the ace/aro spectrum and questioning individuals.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Other Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:07:24 -0400 2021-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Other All four Ace Week event titles and dates with a word or two about the kind of event it is. The graphic has the same black, white, purple, and grey color scheme as the asexual pride flag.
CCN Forum: Second Year Developmental Talks (October 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86041 86041-21631232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Jahla Osborne
Advisors: John Jonides & Priti Shah
Title: Distractibility & ADHD: Understanding the Relative Influence of Different Sources of Distraction

Soo Ryu
Advisor: Rick Lewis
Title: Transformers as integrative psycholinguistic models that combine expectation-based and memory-based accounts

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Presentation Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:55:13 -0400 2021-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Jahla Osborne, Soo Ryu
Imperial Pasts in the Present: Affect, Indigeneity, and Memory (October 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87668 87668-21644962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Moderator: Aslı Iğsız, associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, New York University. Presenters: Hakem Al-Rustom, Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History and assistant professor of anthropology, University of Michigan; Vladislav Beronja, assistant professor of Slavic and Eurasian studies, University of Texas at Austin.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated pre-existing institutional, structural, and systemic discrimination and inequality in societies across the world. Furthermore, continued campaigns against gender and LGBTQ equity in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, racism in the United States, and the social protest movements that rose in response to such exclusionary projects have reinforced calls for intersectional approaches in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (SEEES). Class, ethnicity and race, dis/ability, gender and sexuality, and other identity markers interweave to produce inequality differently in Eastern Europe and Eurasia than in the Americas or Western Europe. Yet, it is these very differences that provide a rich ground for intellectual conversations in our field.

Aslı Iğsız is associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Michigan. Professor Iğsız's book, *Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange* (Stanford University Press) uses the management of difference to explore racialized logics of population transfers, partitions, segregation, apartheid, and border walls. Her primary research interests are political violence, eugenics, humanism, spatial segregation, forced migration, and cultural policy. Prof. Iğsız is currently a fellow at the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on a project that focuses on the notion of fascist utopias in the contemporary world.

Hakem Al-Rustom is the Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History and assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. Professor Al-Rustom earned his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in social anthropology. His main research interests are the anthropology of history, examining the relationships between indigenous populations and settler colonialists, migration and displacement, historical ethnographies, and silences and absences in post-Ottoman societies. Professor Al-Rustom is currently working on a book on the unwritten histories of the Armenian citizens of Turkey to depict the history of indigenous populations that continue to face erasures in the wake of the establishment of nation-states.

Vladislav Beronja is assistant professor of Slavic and Eurasian studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. in Slavic languages & literatures from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Professor Beronja's primary research interests range from contemporary comics and popular music to postmodern metafiction, psychoanalytical approaches to trauma, and Marxist aesthetics. He has published and edited many articles, book reviews, and translations. His current book project "Archival Fictions: Cultural Memory, Literary Imagination, and the Yugoslav Wars" examines how post-Yugoslav writers and artists critically deploy the archive as a governing metaphor for the loss and preservation of cultural memory in post-Communist Eastern Europe. Professor Beronja's courses highlight literature, cinema, music, and cultural identity in the Balkans; modern warfare and comics; and nostalgia and popular culture in Eastern Europe and the United States.

Register for the Zoom webinar at https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9FNhcTJeSS-yzSAFewFLMg

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 04 Oct 2021 09:42:30 -0400 2021-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference / Symposium Intersectionality in Focus
Prosody Discussion Group (October 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85975 85975-21630628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Prosody Group consists of researchers interested in any aspect of prosody. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to present work in progress, read papers, and practice for upcoming presentations. Please join us if this sounds interesting to you!

Meetings this semester will be virtual. For Zoom access information, or to be added to the Prosody discussion group list, please email:
prosody-contact@umich.edu

On Friday, October 29, Mairym Lloréns Monteserín of the University of Southern California will present "Co-speech vocal tics produced by adults with Tourette syndrome are sensitive to prosodic structure."

ABSTRACT
Speech planning and production takes place in a body beset by urges. An urge to x is a sensation of discomfort that worsens until x is performed. It is common for talkers to experience urges to cough/yawn/etc. while they are speaking but very little is known about how these two fundamentally different modes of control over vocal behavior interact. My research is currently focused on understanding if and how urge-based systems that have the potential to wrest control over vocal-respiratory articulators are coordinated with co-occurring speech at different time-scales/levels of prosodic hierarchy. The vocal tics produced by adults living with the neurological condition Tourette syndrome provide a unique opportunity to investigate this topic because they occur frequently. Vocal tic noises, words and phrases are produced in order to satisfy an urge and they are completely unrelated to a ticcer-talker's linguistic and communicative goals. For my dissertation, I collected a corpus of acoustic recordings of adults performing a battery of speech tasks while ticcing freely, that is, while refraining from suppressing their own tics. By removing the need for active suppression, tic and speech motor systems are free to coordinate or compete in a naturalistic fashion. In this talk I will present an analysis of the relationship between prosodic structure and the timing of co-speech tic events. The distribution of tic events shows that tics are sensitive to prosodic structure at the level of intonational phrases (at least). I interpret these results to suggest that a higher-level task coordinates tic utterances with phrase boundaries. Implications for our understanding of speech planning in light of such “meta-prosody” are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:27:30 -0400 2021-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Borer Lecture: Dr. Henriette van Praag (October 29, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88013 88013-21648528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Dr. Henriette van Praag, from Florida Atlantic University, will speak on, "Mechanisms Underlying the Beneficial Effects of Exercise for the Brain." RSVP: http://myumi.ch/lxO87. Zoom link will be sent the day of the event to whose who have registered. Flyer: http://myumi.ch/erjVM.

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Presentation Mon, 18 Oct 2021 10:50:56 -0400 2021-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Presentation
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 29, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87229 87229-21640549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Meetings will be virtual. Zoom access information will be shared via the SoConDi listserv. For more information, please email: so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:28:00 -0400 2021-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Writing Graduate School Application Statements (October 29, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88774 88774-21657750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

What to include/avoid and how to frame your story while writing academic and personal statements for research-based grad programs.

Seminar/Discussion

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95163992475

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:12:00 -0400 2021-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar FIRST Logo
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (October 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (October 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85629 85629-21627814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a Speaking American English workshop for Fall 2021. The Speaking American English workshop is designed to help you reach personal communication goals and offers a supportive environment to practice the language skills that are important to you.

The session will run for 10 weeks from September 10 to November 19, 2021. Participants will meet weekly on Fridays from 4-5 p.m.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to enhance communication skills for greater self-assurance in any setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. If the group workshop does not work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives.
* Both group and individual activities.
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection.
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions.
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist.

Register by filling out the form here: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bg6tZhShXwx5IfH

If you have questions or need assistance, please call (734) 764-8440.

Details
When: 4-5 p.m. Fridays, September 10-November 19, 2021 (no session on October 1)
Where: Virtually through Zoom, with a potential for in-person meetings as needed or available.
Cost: $275.00, plus purchase of Mastering the American Accent by Lisa Mojsin.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:51:32 -0400 2021-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Fall 2021
CSAS Lecture | Misinformation and Political Twitter in India (October 29, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87281 87281-21640717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Rescheduled from September 24.

In the last decade, India has seen a massive uptake in the adoption, and frequency of technology use by citizens, making social media a primary means of information access for a large part of the Indian citizenry. This talk uses three instances of coordinated online misinformation around the COVID-19, the 2021 farmer protests, and the demise of a movie star to highlight ways in which social media has become a feeder channel for mainstream media in India. I show that in each case, misinformation related to the primary event was crafted to engage alternate targets – including communities, activists, political actors, or celebrities, and that this was done within a larger narrative of belonging and citizenship.

Joyojeet Pal is an associate professor at the School of Information at the University of Michigan and a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India. His research examines the use of social media in mainstream politics.

Please register in advance for this zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkdu-qpzooHdA1Rh0H6trGUh2Za_qxWuGt

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:43:33 -0400 2021-10-29T16:30:00-04:00 2021-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Joyojeet Pal, School of Information, University of Michigan
Carolyn Wonderland (October 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85220 85220-21625744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.

“The more guitar you play, the more you sing, the better you get,” says award-winning Texas guitar slinger, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Wonderland. Since performing her first professional gig at age 15, she’s never stopped singing and making music. Her music includes a bold mix of timeless original songs and reinventions of some of her favorites, ranging from blistering electric blues to deep, heartfelt ballads to cosmic country to soulful Tex-Mex. Every song is fueled by Wonderland’s forceful yet melodic Texas-flavored guitar work and her full-throated, heart-on-her-sleeve vocals. She’s recorded ten previous albums under her own name, including four produced by famed musician Ray Benson, founder of multiple Grammy-winning band Asleep At The Wheel. Wonderland, who spent the last three years as lead guitarist in John Mayall’s Blues Breakers, now joins the Alligator Records family as the first female guitar hero in the label’s storied 50-year history. Her spine-chilling, soul-deep singing matches her guitar prowess note for note. And she has a knack for writing songs that sound like instant classics. Her Alligator Records debut, the Dave Alvin-produced Tempting Fate, is the next chapter in Wonderland’s remarkable story, one that is already overflowing with countless and colorful once-in-a-lifetime experiences.

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Performance Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:28:13 -0400 2021-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Carolyn Wonderland holds a guitar and smiles.
Become a UROP Research Mentor (October 30, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 83879-21619574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

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Other Tue, 11 May 2021 12:45:19 -0400 2021-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Submit a Research Project
That Greece Might Still Be Free (October 30, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Application Open (October 30, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87903 87903-21647506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Gain exposure to non-profits, research and Detroit in Summer 2022.

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

https://myumi.ch/erK95

Priority Deadline: December 3rd (5pm)
Final Application Deadline: January 31st 2022 (5pm)

Info Session offered Wednesdays at Noon weekly
From October 27 - December 8, January 5 - January 12
Register for an info session at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:17:43 -0500 2021-10-30T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 30, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Ace Week Programming (October 30, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88419 88419-21653865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
Ace Week Programs
October 24th - 30th
All events will be held virtually

Ace/Aro Centerspace Discussion
When: Monday, October 25th from 7:30-8:30 pm
Join the asexual and aromantic centerspace for a multi-faceted discussion about asexuality and how it affects our experiences and identity. Please note that this event is only for members of the ace/aro spectrum and questioning individuals. We will be discussing asexuality and what the community means to us, navigating relationships, and intersectionality when it comes to the ace community. Come to discuss these topics or to learn from others!

Aces in Academia Student Panel
When: Wednesday, October 27th at 6 pm
This year we're having a brand new event where asexual students will be discussing their experiences and answering questions. This event is open to anyone, allies and asexuals! Submit questions via the chat, learn about the experiences of other students, support the asexual UMich community, and learn how to be an ally to aces!

Putting the Ace in Sex Ed
When: Friday, October 29th from 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Most sexual education is not ace-friendly, much less ace-focused, and we're going to take a stab at fixing that! This interactive workshop will focus on defining terms like consent, desire, and arousal, communication in relationships, setting boundaries, and being proud of your identity! You will be invited to reflect on how you experience your sexuality and have the opportunity to learn from asexual and ace-spectrum experiences. his event is open to anyone, allies and asexuals!

Ace/Aro Centerspace Social Event
When: Saturday, October 30th at 1 pm
Wrap up Ace Week by hanging out with your fellow asexual and aromantics! We'll be playing games and bonding and in general having a relaxing and fun time! Please note that this event is only for members of the ace/aro spectrum and questioning individuals.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Other Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:07:24 -0400 2021-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Other All four Ace Week event titles and dates with a word or two about the kind of event it is. The graphic has the same black, white, purple, and grey color scheme as the asexual pride flag.
Virtual Saturday Sampler Tour | Spooky, Weird, and Magical: Halloween with the Kelsey (October 30, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88030 88030-21648636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The theme of this week's Virtual Saturday Sampler Tour is "Spooky, Weird, and Magical: Halloween with the Kelsey."

This tour explores a variety of objects in the Kelsey through the lens of Halloween. We'll look at animals, mummies, funerary inscriptions, headless sculptures, and more from the ancient Middle East, Greece, Egypt, and Rome.

Zoom link:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98615763784

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Oct 2021 14:22:41 -0400 2021-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual cat mummy head
Improvisation & Encounter: EDGEFEST (October 30, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87349 87349-21641293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Center for World Performance Studies partners with Edgefest and the Stearns Collection of Musical Instrument for this in-person concert, featuring a collective improvisation using instruments from the Stearns Collection, by U-M students, faculty and Edgefest artists. This concert also include performances by William Parker & Francisco Mela and Steve Swell’s “If Trains Could Speak.”

All patrons and artists who wish to attend or present performances indoors at Edgefest must provide a valid, complete COVID-19 vaccination card OR proof of a negative COVID-19 test performed within the previous 72 hours prior to entry. Such proof must be presented at concert check-in, may be displayed on a smartphone OR presented as a physical copy, and must also be accompanied by a matching, valid ID for verification.

Additionally, according to current CDC recommendations, masks are required for audiences inside. When performing, artists may wear a mask, or not, at their own discretion.

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Performance Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:21:42 -0400 2021-10-30T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Performance William Parker, photo credit: Jimmy Katz
Concert. Edgefest: Steve Swell’s *If Trains Could Speak* (October 30, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88609 88609-21656108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Steve Swell is one of the finest composers/improvisers on the New York downtown scene and is internationally acclaimed for his trombone playing. He has performed regularly in Europe, often in Poland, where he has established important connections with local musicians. On one of his many trips to Kraków he decided to visit Auschwitz, and wrote, “The first time I tried to visit Auschwitz in 2007, there was no train. They had changed the track of the train that regularly departed for there. They announced the track change in Polish but not in English. There were about two very angry people yelling and screaming at the ticket sellers and railroad staff as to this oversight. Can you imagine, people yelling that they missed the train to Auschwitz and that it had ruined their day?”

Later he wrote, "*If Trains Could Speak* is inspired by that ninety-minute train ride from Kraków to Auschwitz concentration camp. The ride itself is through some very beautiful, peaceful countryside and farmland in southeast Poland. The incongruity of my ride and the ride of those whose trip seventy years before was one of uncertainty and hopelessness prompted a multitude of thoughts and feelings as the train progressed to its destination. The journey and visit to the camp itself sparked a deeper understanding of the horrors that humans are capable of and its juxtaposition to our ability to be brilliant, creative, and tolerant. Delving into the choice we have in either surrendering to our baser instincts or transcending them, feeds my own lifelong curiosity of what it means to be alive, and to know that life is fragile, dangerous, and magnificent all at the same time."

In addition to the composer on trombone, the performance will feature Deanna Relyea, mezzo-soprano; Jason Kao Hwang, violin and viola; Piotr Michalowski, bass clarinet and soprano saxophone; Steve Rush, piano; Ken Filiano, bass; and Michael TA Thompson, percussion.

All attendees must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask.

Visit https://www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com/edgefest/ for festival or single event tickets.

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Performance Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:47:28 -0400 2021-10-30T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-30T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Performance Steve Swell, photo by Ziga Koritnik
Edgefest: Steve Swell’s If Trains Could Speak (October 30, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88741 88741-21657249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This is currently scheduled as the final set of the Grand Finale Evening of Edgefest at the Bethlehem United Church of Christ on 4th Ave. on Saturday evening (Oct. 30). The full program begins at 7 pm. All attendees must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask. Steve Swell is one of the finest composers/improvisers on the New York downtown scene and is internationally acclaimed for his trombone playing. He has performed regularly in Europe, often in Poland, where he has established important connections with local musicians. On one of his many trips to Kraków he decided to visit Auschwitz:

“The first time I tried to visit Auschwitz in 2007, there was no train. They had changed the track of the train that regularly departed for there. They announced the track change in Polish but not in English. There were about two very angry people yelling and screaming at the ticket sellers and railroad staff as to this oversight. Can you imagine, people yelling that they missed the train to Auschwitz and that it had ruined their day?”

Later he wrote: If “Trains Could Speak” is inspired by that ninety-minute train ride from Krakow to Auschwitz concentration camp. The ride itself is through some very beautiful, peaceful countryside and farmland in southeast Poland. The incongruity of my ride and the ride of those whose trip seventy years before was one of uncertainty and hopelessness prompted a multitude of thoughts and feelings as the train progressed to its destination. The journey and visit to the camp itself sparked a deeper understanding of the horrors that humans are capable of and
its juxtaposition to our ability to be brilliant, creative, and tolerant. Delving into the choice we have in either surrendering to our baser instincts or to transcend them, feeds my own lifelong curiosity of what it means to be alive, and to know that life is fragile, dangerous, and magnificent all at the same time.

In addition to the composer on trombone, the performance will feature Deanna Relyea, mezzo soprano, Jason Kao Hwang, violin, viola, Piotr Michalowski, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, Steve Rush, piano, Ken Filiano, bass, and Michael TA Thompson, percussion.

All attendees must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask.

Visit https://www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com/edgefest/ for festival or single event tickets.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:17:31 -0400 2021-10-30T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-30T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Fair / Festival Steve Swell
Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express w/opener Matt Jaffe (October 30, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84210 84210-21620766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Since his neo-psychedelic Green On Red days, Chuck Prophet has been turning out country, folk, blues, and Brill Building classicism. His new album, "The Land That Time Forgot," is something different, a weather vane picking up signals from outer space—or maybe from the Heartland. Priced out of his beloved hometown, San Francisco, Chuck found himself re-energized in upstate New York just a few miles from the Vermont border—and made a record that's something of a 21st-century exorcism. The songs inhabit a world where a "Fast Kid" might be on the run from the truant officer or a handsy boss ... or the Immigration Service. These are love songs that turn political on a dime ("Love Doesn't Come from the Barrel of a Gun"), and melodic hallucinations about kicking back in the Oval Office after hours "talking to my baby, saying baby, let’s not fight." Where else besides a Chuck Prophet LP are songs going to come at you from both the Tenderloin and an English roundabout, with stopovers in "Nixonland" and a lovestruck mirror on a Saturday night while a working man tries his "Best Shirt On"? There's more. Come and hear the latest from one of our favorite songwriters to have come out of the world of alternative rock.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:37:40 -0400 2021-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express at The Ark
Become a UROP Research Mentor (October 31, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 83879-21619575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 31, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

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Other Tue, 11 May 2021 12:45:19 -0400 2021-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-31T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Submit a Research Project
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Application Open (October 31, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87903 87903-21647507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 31, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Gain exposure to non-profits, research and Detroit in Summer 2022.

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

https://myumi.ch/erK95

Priority Deadline: December 3rd (5pm)
Final Application Deadline: January 31st 2022 (5pm)

Info Session offered Wednesdays at Noon weekly
From October 27 - December 8, January 5 - January 12
Register for an info session at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:17:43 -0500 2021-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-31T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
For Halloween: the International Studies Horror Filmfest 2021 (October 31, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88479 88479-21654238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 31, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This year the library's International Studies Horror Filmfest — our annual Halloween spectacular — is once again offered virtually. The movies are from around the world, but each one is subtitled in English.

Get your snacks in order and prepare to be horrified! If you’ve got creaky floors, or a loud water heater, we won’t judge you for wanting somebody’s hand to hold while you watch.

WATCH AT YOUR LEISURE

The movies are available through Kanopy and Alexander Street streaming movie services, which means you can watch them at your leisure — any day or time. Log in with your U-M credentials.

Let the Right One In — Swedish — 1 hr 54 mins
https://myumi.ch/yKeVR
In this romantic horror film, a bullied 12-year-old boy develops a friendship with a pale, serious young girl who only comes out at night. There was an American remake of this movie, but this is the original.

Bacurau — Portuguese, filmed in Brazil — 2 hrs 11 mins
https://myumi.ch/QAejq
In this thriller mystery, Bacurau — a (fictional) small town in Brazil — disappears from maps and GPS after its elderly matriarch dies. Residents see a UFO-shaped drone flying overhead.

Dead Friend, or The Ghost — Korean — 1 hr 35 mins
https://myumi.ch/r8WV7
This horror film is set in a high school, where a bright young student loses her memory. Her old friends mysteriously die one by one, her memory starts returning, and she investigates.

Dogtooth — Greek — 1 hr 37 mins
https://myumi.ch/jxpRN
In this violent drama, parents keep their three children ignorant of the world outside their fenced compound, keeping them in a perpetual childhood well into adulthood. This movie is definitely 10+ on the vicious scale!

WATCH WITH US ON HALLOWEEN

Sign into Canvas with your U-M credentials: https://umich.instructure.com/enroll/XAFGE9

You can access the movies in Canvas at any time to watch on your own, but please join us for a group viewing on Halloween (Sunday, October 31) so you can chat during the movies! We'll be broadcasting on Canvas at these (approximate) times:

4:00 pm: Let The Right One In
6:00 pm: Bacurau
8:30 pm: The Dead Friend (The Ghost)
10:15 pm: Dogtooth

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Film Screening Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:15:50 -0400 2021-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-31T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Film Screening Images from the DVD covers of four horror movies
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 31, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 31, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 31, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 31, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Dustbowl Revival w/opener Smooth Hound Smith - Rescheduled from 6/26/21 (October 31, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83287 83287-21336291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 31, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

The Dustbowl Revival has always been about pushing the boundaries of what American roots music can be. In many ways, they could have continued creating joyful, booty-shaking songs and cut-to-heart folk-rock ballads that lift up their transcendent live shows—and mining new energetic material from the place where folk music, funk, and soul meet. But the band’s newest album, "Is It You, Is It Me," is something different entirely. Produced by Sam Kassirer [Lake Street Dive, Josh Ritter] and engineered by Brian Joseph [Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens], it represents the latest stage in a band that never stops evolving and refuses to stand still. The album tackles uneasy topics—often where the political feels personal, especially in the defiant "Get Rid of You," which was inspired by the student activists who emerged from the tragic Parkland High School shooting in Florida. The ominous driving brass groove of "Enemy" hones in on a painful generational split between a daughter and her parents who may have voted in a tyrant, and have become strangers to her. This yearning search for common ground pervades the record as a whole.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:44:42 -0400 2021-10-31T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-31T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Performance Dustbowl Revival presented by The Ark
Become a UROP Research Mentor (November 1, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83879 83879-21619576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

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Other Tue, 11 May 2021 12:45:19 -0400 2021-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Other Submit a Research Project
Clinical Brown Bag: Clinical Phenotyping of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: A Temporal Dynamics Approach to Understanding Heterogeneity (November 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88621 88621-21656208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dr. Sperry will discuss theoretical and methodological considerations for measuring heterogeneity in bipolar spectrum disorders. She will review her prior work using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine the intraindividual variability in emotion, cognition, and behavior in daily life and highlight future research here at the University of Michigan that will integrate these approaches to implement and test personalized interventions for bipolar disorder.

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Presentation Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:15:53 -0400 2021-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Sperry
Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Application Open (November 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87903 87903-21647508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Gain exposure to non-profits, research and Detroit in Summer 2022.

Be part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city, non-profits, community engagement and each other!

https://myumi.ch/erK95

Priority Deadline: December 3rd (5pm)
Final Application Deadline: January 31st 2022 (5pm)

Info Session offered Wednesdays at Noon weekly
From October 27 - December 8, January 5 - January 12
Register for an info session at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:17:43 -0500 2021-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
Sweetland Write Together (November 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87111 87111-21638830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.
Join the session here

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:16:18 -0400 2021-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Write-Togethers (November 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85156 85156-21625655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.

Supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

Where
Google doc link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wWLfQZ2ZNbfEeiUCUoKRE6y1l98mAKZA7NsjCpyn604/edit

More information:
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:47:35 -0400 2021-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Livestream / Virtual Write-Togethers
MCDB Dissertation Defense > Tomato pollen wall development, and the role of FIN4 in the formation of the pollen intine (November 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88770 88770-21657670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Mentor: Cora MacAlister

Virtual event: Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93612367952
Email mcdb.seminar.info@umich.edu for passcode.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:07:27 -0400 2021-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Livestream / Virtual Yellow MCDB initials Microscope Drawing on dark blue rectangle
The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International And Regional Studies (November 1, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87386 87386-21641654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2022 term. Registration is required at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vmAV2LHeTiKBUbn9yVCbAA

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:32:15 -0400 2021-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International And Regional Studies
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle (joint with Andy Schotter) (November 1, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88151 88151-21650731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract: "This paper presents a puzzle in the behavior of experimental subjects in what we call common-probability auctions. In common-value auctions, uncertainty is defined over values while, in common-probability auctions, uncertainty is defined over probabilities. We find that in contrast to the substantial overbidding found in common-value auctions, bidding in strategically equivalent common-probability auctions is consistent with Nash-equilibrium. This difference between the two uncertain environments originates in subjects' strategic valuations of the object."

(To attend this online event, please complete the form to receive email instructions and announcements for this and future SBEE Seminars.)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:07:17 -0400 2021-11-01T11:30:00-04:00 2021-11-01T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar SBEE seminar series
Consequences of Receiving Versus Being Denied a Wanted Abortion (November 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86164 86164-21631757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Michigan Population Studies Center Brown Bag seminars presents:

Diana Greene Foster will discuss the context and findings of The Turnaway Study. The Turnaway Study answers the question, Does abortion hurt women? and the converse, What are the harms when women are unable to get a wanted abortion? Dr. Foster will review the challenges of studying abortion and what has happened in the absence of rigorous data. She will describe the study design of the Turnaway Study and present its major findings about women’s mental health, physical health and the wellbeing of their children. She will describe the reasons people give for seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy and what that tells us about whether one can trust women’s decision-making abilities around pregnancy.

Diana Greene Foster, PhD, is a demographer who uses quantitative models and analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of family planning policies and the effect of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives. She is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco and Director of Research at the UCSF ANSIRH Program. She led the Turnaway Study, a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of the health and well-being of women who seek abortion including both women who do and do not receive the abortion in the United States. She is currently collaborating with scientists on an NIH-funded Turnaway Study in Nepal. Dr. Foster received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, her MA and PhD in Demography and Public Policy from Princeton University. She is the author of the 2020 book, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion. She is the recipient of the 2021 Harriet B. Presser Award for the study of gender and demography from the Population Association of America.

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:46:51 -0400 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Diana Greene Foster
Methods for estimating time-varying exposures during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes (November 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88560 88560-21655083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Howard Chang, PhD, is a Professor of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Environmental Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

The goal of Environmental Statistics Week is to disseminate knowledge of advanced statistical methods most relevant to environmental health research with expert-led discussions on statistical concepts.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:27:34 -0400 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion 2021 Environmental Statistics Week
New Research on Campus Sexual Assault (November 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88074 88074-21649178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Panelists:
- Leanna Papp, Doctoral Candidate, Joint Program in Women's and Gender Studies and Personality & Social Contexts, U-M
- Sara McClelland, Associate Professor of Psychology & Women's and Gender Studies, U-M
- Saida Gundy, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Boston University
- Kamaria Porter, Doctoral Candidate, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, U-M
- Michelle Munro-Kramer, Assistant Professor, Suzanne Bellinger Feetham Professor of Nursing, Director of Global Programs, Department of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences, U-M

Facilitator: Samara Hough, Director, Center for Gender and Sexuality, University of Michigan-Flint

Research on campus sexual assault has the potential to inform policy, practice, and pathways to recovery. However, many have called to widen the scope of research in this area beyond the experiences of white, cis-gendered women on predominantly white U.S. colleges and universities, in party or social spaces.

As part of IRWG’s Initiative on Gender Based Violence and Sexual Harassment, we present an interdisciplinary panel of researchers who are pushing the boundaries of this field. Leanna Papp and Sara McClelland will present on the harms of "low level" unwanted sexual touching. Saida Grundy will share her work on racialized rape cultures on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Kamaria Porter will present on barriers Black women experience to reporting sexual assault during higher education; and Michelle Munro Kramer will share recent work on how colleges and universities in Sub-Saharan Africa have responded to sexual and gender based violence.

This event will be recorded. Please register to receive a link to the recording.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:59:00 -0400 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual New Research on Campus Sexual Assault
Online Tai Chi with Olivia Musat (November 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88610 88610-21656188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Register at https://myumi.ch/mnGvP

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:15:13 -0400 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Online Tai Chi with Olivia Musat
RISE November Virtual Talking Circle (November 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87910 87910-21647679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

Please join us for our next Virtual Taking Circle on Monday, November 1 at 12:00 PM. We will be hosting a conversation about how educators are finding ways to innovate within the clinical setting. We look forward to learning more about current innovations happening in the clinical setting and what it takes to be innovative within this setting. We will also explore synergies that might better enable innovation and what is next for innovation in the clinical setting.
All are welcome to join!

Register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-virtual-talking-circle-tickets-176292163607

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Oct 2021 12:17:38 -0400 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Workshop / Seminar RISE Virtual Talking Circle
Writing a Diversity Statement (November 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85473 85473-21626533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many academic employers have begun to request a “diversity statement” as part of the faculty job application process. In this interactive session, we will discuss best practices for writing diversity statements, examine sample statements, and work through activities designed to help participants start writing their own statement.
Learning objectives:

Reflect on ways you are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in your research, teaching, engagement, leadership, or other areas.
Identify resources that allow them to participate and contribute to DEI initiatives, opportunities, projects, and research.
Review best practices to write a diversity statement. Learn how to critically evaluate diversity statements.

This workshop is part of the Rackham North Workshop Series although graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from all campuses are welcome to attend.
This workshop is designed for master’s students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/AxWg2.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:16:58 -0400 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (November 1, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85563 85563-21626853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will read and discuss “Think Again” by Adam Grant. He examines ways we could and should question our opinions and attempt to open other people's minds. Many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn.

As the book says, “our beliefs get brittle before our bones.”

You will learn how an international debate champion wins arguments and how the author has coaxed Yankee fans to root for the Red Sox. Adam Grant shows how to get people to begin questioning their ideas, but he freely admits it is often impossible to change minds.

Instructor Gerry Lapidus has conducted OLLI book discussions since 2005. The classes are informal and conversational. He leads the first week's discussion and requests volunteers to lead the remaining sessions while he serves as moderator. Please read the Prologue and Section 1 (p.1-32) for the first session.

This study group will meet on Mondays for six weeks beginning on November 1. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:00:56 -0400 2021-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours (November 1, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77718 77718-21637450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions, get help working through a problem, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!

Not sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.

*Digital Scholarship*
Our digital scholarship team specializes in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:
* Conceptualizing, planning, and finding resources for a digital project
* How to version, archive, and preserve a project
* Sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, or grant requirements
New to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.

*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*

Our GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs, including the following:
* Making maps for use in a class, grant proposal, or publication
* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data
* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data
* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map
* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story
* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline
* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, or other geospatial software
* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application

*High Performance Computing (HPC)*

Our HPC team can help with:
* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster
* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster, freeing up your machines for other tasks
* Compiling, installing, or configuring a wide range of computational software
* Setting up automated workflows to save time
* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing
* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing, more memory or system resources for your code
We regularly support Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Julia, Go, and many other applications.

*Research Support Programming*

Our computer programming team can help with any of the following:

* Debugging, repair, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code
* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project
* Design and development of custom software to support your research
* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.
* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals
We're experienced in MATLAB, Python, R, LabVIEW, JavaScript, MedPC, iOS development, and more.

Who can join the office hours?
LSA Faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems, high performance computing, digital scholarship, and computer programming

When and where is it?
Our virtual office hours use Zoom:
Mondays, 2:00–3:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, 10:00–11:00 A.M.
Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 P.M.

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